Lockheed Martin Wins $122.4M Navy Trident Contract

The contract modernizes Trident navigation systems and supports a foreign military sale to the United Kingdom.

Updated on Nov. 6, 2026 in Military

Photograph of matte gray equipment cabinets and bundled cable runs along a steel bulkhead in a dim industrial hull interior, lit by a single shaft of cool light. — Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems won a $122.4 million U.S. Navy contract to support Trident fleet operations and modernize aging navigation systems. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems received a $122.4 million U.S. Navy contract, numbered N0003027C3015, covering Trident fleet support and navigation development. The award also supports a foreign military sale to the United Kingdom.

Why it matters

The Navy's fiscal 2027 budget justification identifies aging navigation equipment as a modernization priority for the Trident strategic weapons system. The contract replaces the roughly 30-year-old Electrostatic Gyro Navigator with an updated shipboard integration system.

The $122.4 million contract includes about $29.2 million in fiscal 2027 Navy funds obligated at award and $3.97 million in operations and maintenance funds that expire at the end of fiscal 2027. Work is split among Mitchel Field, New York (77%), Huntington Beach, California (20%), Manassas, Virginia (2%) and other locations (1%).

The players

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems

The Lockheed Martin business unit responsible for mission systems and naval electronics, and the prime contractor on this Trident navigation award.

U.S. Navy

The military service that awarded the contract and oversees the Trident strategic weapons program, including its submarine-launched missile and navigation systems.

The details

The contract covers Strategic Weapon System Trident Fleet Support, Trident II Strategic Systems Programs Shipboard Integration Increment 8, and navigation subsystem development under a cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee structure. Increment 8 replaces electronic equipment consoles and updates navigation subsystem software while retaining existing navigation-center infrastructure such as cabling, chilled-water systems and electrical power.

Fiscal 2027: Navy budget justification identifies Electrostatic Gyro Navigator modernization as a priority.
Fiscal 2027: Approximately $29.2 million in Navy funds obligated at award.
End of fiscal 2027: $3.97 million in operations and maintenance funds expire.
October 31, 2030: Contract work expected to be completed.

Season Trajectory

The Trident II program has been modernized through successive shipboard integration increments under the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs office. This award continues that pattern by targeting navigation hardware that dates to the program's earlier decades.

The Increment 8 work is scheduled to finish by October 31, 2030, so the navigation upgrade will reach Trident submarines over several years. Procurement watchers can track the remaining obligations as fiscal 2027 funding is spent.

The takeaway

Modernizing decades-old navigation hardware is a routine but necessary cost of keeping strategic deterrent systems accurate and reliable. Readers following defense spending can watch how fiscal 2027 funds move into this multi-year effort.