Draper Secures $308M Navy Contract for Missile Program

The U.S. Navy has tapped Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to provide specialized engineering on the inertial navigation measurement and analysis requirements of its Conventional Prompt Strike, or CPS, hypersonic missile program under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at about $308.3 million.

The contract’s other tasks include support services on flight testing, global positioning system applications and electro optical alternate navigation and guidance and reentry subsystems, according to a Department of Defense announcement released Friday.

Four-Year Work Performance

The contract’s work completion is expected on Sept. 30, 2029, with 90 percent performed at the nonprofit engineering company’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, home base. The rest of the work performance is slated at Washington, D.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Huntsville, Alabama.

An allocation of about $5.7 million in fiscal year 2025 research development test and evaluation funds will be obligated at the time of the award, with no funds expiring at the current fiscal year’s end.

Sole-Source Procurement

The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs office in Washington, D.C., initiated the contracting activity on a sole source basis. The CPS contract was synopsized in a SAM.gov presolicitation issued on Nov. 30, 2023. The services for NAVY procurement cited in the synopsis include flight testing support, electro optical alternative navigation and guidance and reentry subsystems.

CPS flight testing on the program’s missile prototype started in June 2022. Lockheed Martin is another company holding a CPS stake, with the potential one-year, $534 million Navy contract modification it secured in June 2024 to provide systems engineering, development and testing support services for CPS.

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