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Trident II D5 Missile

Submarine-launched ballistic missile that is the strategic weapon of the Navy's Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines and is also the planned armament of the Columbia class; it also serves on UK Vanguard-class submarines. Lockheed Martin is the Navy's strategic missile prime contractor. First deployed in 1990, the D5 is slated to remain in service into the 2040s, and Lockheed Martin is developing the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2).

FieldedU.S. NavyTrident II D5Trident D5D5UGM-133AD5LE

Contracts$43.35B obligated since FY2008

Contractors16

  1. Lockheed Martin$27.52B 63%
  2. Draper$7.34B 17%
  3. General Dynamics$3.71B 8.6%
  4. Northrop Grumman$2.54B 5.9%
  5. BAE Systems$1.07B 2.5%
  6. L3Harris Technologies$667M 1.5%
  7. Boeing$437M 1.0%
  8. Leidos$31.4M 0.1%
  9. RTX$18.3M 0.0%
  10. Curtiss-Wright$7.7M 0.0%
  11. Amentum$3.1M 0.0%
  12. Serco Inc.$550K 0.0%

Awards50

Obligations are signed USAspending prime-contract actions coded to this program, FY2008 to date, credited to the company that received each action. Obligations are money committed, not company revenue.