Draper Awarded $132.9M

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the submarine USS Maryland off the coast of Florida on Aug. 31, 2016. Navy has awarded Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. a $132.9 million modification contract for the Trident's D5 MK6 guidance system. The Trident II Weapons System is the U.S. and British's primary submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile fleet. Nearly half of the U.S. strategic warheads are on 14 U.S.