Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract worth up to $2.97 billion to extend its role as the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (ABMD) Combat Systems Engineering Agent.
The deal provides essential support to maintain the operational readiness of the Aegis combat suite, which combines advanced radars and digital systems to manage and activate both naval and shore-based weapon systems under the oversight of the US Missile Defense Agency.
Under the agreement, Lockheed will continue to design, engineer, and maintain software to enhance all phases of the Aegis missile network’s fire control loop, including planning, detection, control, engagement, and evaluation.
Work will include the integration of additional data into the Lockheed-provided Common Source Library to expand the ABMD’s threat knowledge base, optimize single-ship performance, and enable weapons upgrades.
The project will run until until 2035 and will support Aegis capabilities aboard naval cruisers, guided-missile destroyers, land-based centers, the Aegis Guam System, and the ongoing Glide Phase Interceptor program.
Lockheed’s Rotary and Mission Systems segment will lead the initiative from Moorestown, New Jersey.
In a statement, the Missile Defense Agency noted that Lockheed was selected due to its sole-source expertise and its “requisite knowledge, experience, and access to the Aegis BMD Weapon System design and software source code,” according to a Defense Industry Europe report.
