Company will integrate weapon system onto U.S.
Navy surface ships
LITTLETON, Colo., Feb. 17,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is
partnering with the U.S. Navy to integrate hypersonic strike
capability onto surface ships.
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth more
than $2 billion, if all options are
exercised, to integrate the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) weapon
system onto ZUMWALT-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs). CPS is
a hypersonic boost-glide weapon system that enables long range
missile flight at speeds greater than Mach 5, with high
survivability against enemy defenses.
"Lockheed Martin continues to advance hypersonic strike
capability for the United States
through this new contract," said Steve
Layne, vice president of Hypersonic Strike Weapon Systems at
Lockheed Martin. "Early design work is already underway. Our team
looks forward to supporting the warfighter by providing more
options to further protect America at sea."
Under this contract, prime contractor Lockheed Martin will
provide launcher systems, weapon control, All Up Rounds (AURs),
which are the integrated missile components, and platform
integration support for this naval platform. The company, along
with industry partners including subcontractors Northrop Grumman
and General Dynamics Mission Systems, is on track to provide the
CPS surface-launched, sea-based hypersonic strike capability to
sailors by the mid-2020s. The contract also provides for additional
AURs plus canisters for the U.S. Army's Long Range Hypersonic
Weapon (LRHW) testing, training and tactical employment.
A Shared Missile
CPS shares a common AUR
with the Army LRHW and can be launched from
multiple platforms including surface ships, submarines, and
land-based mobile launchers.
Lockheed Martin is the prime systems integrator for the CPS and
LRHW weapon systems. The company leads a team of industry,
government, and academic partners to make critical progress in
design and development to meet this urgent warfighter need in both
land and sea domains.
A National Imperative
Hypersonic vehicles or
hypersonic missiles can travel faster than five times the speed of
sound and are highly maneuverable. The combination of the CPS
capability, and the stealth and mobility of the ZUMWALT-class
destroyer, will provide the nation's first sea-based hypersonic
strike capability.
Fielding CPS on the ZUMWALT-class destroyer will be a necessary
and important step toward equipping the warfighter with a
capability that embodies Lockheed Martin's 21st Century
Security vision in support of our customers.
Lockheed Martin is leveraging its corporate history of system
integration on naval platforms and our more than 60 years of
hypersonic strike experience to accelerate development on an
unprecedented timeline.
For additional information, visit our website:
www.lockheedmartin.com.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin
Corporation is a global security and aerospace company that employs
approximately 116,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged
in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and
sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and
services.
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