- Lockheed Martin Space received an $850.4 million contract modification on April 15 for Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 work through September 2030.
- The Navy will obligate $850.4 million in fiscal 2026 procurement funds for work across multiple U.S. locations, led by Denver, Colorado.
Lockheed Martin has received an $850.4 million Navy contract modification to continue work on the Trident II (D5) Life Extension 2 program.
The award, announced April 15, goes to Lockheed Martin Space of Titusville, Florida, under a cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to an existing contract. It covers advanced design and development work for the Strategic Systems Programs’ SSP Alteration Advanced Design and Development Program, which supports the long-term sustainment of the Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile.
All $850,410,935 in fiscal 2026 Navy weapons procurement funding is being obligated at the time of the award, and the funds will remain available beyond the current fiscal year. The contract was issued on a sole-source basis, with one proposal received after being previously posted on the Systems for Award Management website.
Most of the work, just over 55 percent, will be carried out in Denver, Colorado, where Lockheed Martin’s missile programs have long had a major engineering and production footprint. Additional work will take place across a network of sites in Cape Canaveral, Titusville, Orlando, and Clearwater, Florida; Magna, Utah; Elkton, Maryland; Culpepper, Virginia; Sunnyvale and Folsom, California; along with several smaller locations across the United States. The work is scheduled to run through Sept. 30, 2030.
The contract centers on the Trident II (D5) Life Extension 2 program, an effort to keep the Navy’s primary submarine-launched nuclear missile in service as the fleet transitions from Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines to the next-generation Columbia class.
The Trident II D5 is the missile carried aboard U.S. ballistic missile submarines, one of the most important legs of the country’s nuclear deterrent. Because these submarines operate at sea and are built to remain survivable in a crisis, they form a central part of the nation’s strategic posture.
Rather than replacing the missile outright, the Navy is extending its service life through upgrades to internal components, design refinements, and long-term sustainment work. This latest contract modification funds the engineering and development phase of that effort, helping ensure the system remains operational into the next decade.
That 2030 completion date aligns with the broader schedule for the Columbia-class program, which is expected to carry the same missile system. Keeping the Trident II D5 modernized is therefore directly tied to the future of the Navy’s strategic submarine fleet.
Strategic Systems Programs, based in Washington, D.C., is managing the award. The office oversees the Navy’s fleet ballistic missile enterprise and has long been responsible for sustaining the Trident system across multiple generations of submarines.
Lockheed Martin has been the prime contractor for the Trident II D5 for decades, and this latest award reinforces the company’s central role in one of the most sensitive and enduring weapons programs in the U.S. arsenal.