Draper has secured a $90.7 million contract to manufacture an upgraded guidance technology for the U.S. Navy's Trident II D5 submarine-launched missile system. The company will design, test, manufacture and maintain the Trident missile guidance systems in support of the Navy Strategic Systems Programs.

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The U.S. Navy recently conducted Demonstration and Shakedown Operation-32 off the coast of California, whose purpose was to determine the readiness of the crew and weapon systems of the USS Louisiana, an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine that had just completed an engineering refueling overhaul. During DASO-32, the Navy test launched an unarmed Trident II D5 life extension fleet ballistic missile, a weapon used aboard Ohio-class subs and Vanguard-class subs of the U.K. Royal Navy.

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Northrop Grumman marked the completion of its two thousandth solid rocket motor of the UGM-133A Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile. The company said Thursday it finished manufacturing more than 800 units each of the first-stage A1000 and second-stage B1000 motors for the U.S. Navy. Northrop has been supplying the motors to SLBM developer Lockheed Martin […] More

CAES and Trident Systems have teamed up to market advanced radio frequency and digital signal processing technologies for space, air, sea and land defense uses. The two companies will use their combined expertise in radiation-hardened microelectronics, computing, and processing and communications subsystems to address customer needs, CAES said Monday. According to Mike Kahn, president and […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s space business has received a $70.1 million U.S. Navy award that exercises options for the production and support of Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The Trident D5 work under the contract modification will take place mostly in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with other locations in the U.S. and Italy, and it is expected to […] More

Jim Faist, vice president and chief technology and strategy officer for Lucent Government Solutions Labs at CACI International, has returned to Trident Systems as a member of its board of directors. John Broglio, president of Trident, said in a statement published Tuesday Faist has experience in technical engineering, knowledge about electronic communications and space operations […] More

John Broglio, a nearly three-decade executive at Trident Systems, has succeeded Nick Karangelen to serve as the company’s president following the latter’s retirement. Broglio has been with Trident since 1993, holding several positions of increasing responsibilities, such as program manager and more recently, as executive vice president for operations. He led efforts to commercialize technologies […] More

The U.S. Army has selected Trident Systems’ predictive maintenance technology as the winner of a combat vehicle-focused topic area for a competition under the military branch’s Small Business Innovation Research initiative. Trident said Thursday it will receive funding to develop its Predictive Maintenance Analyzer as part of the Army xTech SBIR effort’s “Topic F: Condition Based Maintenance for Combat Vehicles” track.

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Trident Systems has been awarded a potential five-year, $35M contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop hardware and software that would function as secure collaborative technology or SCTECH. The company will study, adapt, update and transition technologies for connecting chat protocols and facilitating access across  security domains, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a potential $60.6M contract to provide ship alteration support for submarine-launched ballistic missile systems of the U.S. and U.K. navies.

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Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has partnered with commercial technology companies Red Hat and VMware to secure a $957M contract under Cyber TRIDENT, the company reported on Wednesday.

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Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has secured a $83.4M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to carry out research efforts to help the Trident II D5, a submarine-launch ballistic missile, achieve guidance requirements.

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