- Lockheed Martin secured a $1.35 billion Navy contract modification to provide engineering, testing and program management support for the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapon program
- The Navy has installed the CPS system aboard USS Zumwalt, with plans to integrate the weapons platform on USS Michael Monsoor and USS Lyndon B. Johnson and Virginia-class submarines
- Capt. Clint Lawler of the Zumwalt-class destroyer program office said the CPS integration will make the Zumwalt class ships “the Navy’s premier offensive surface combatant”
Lockheed Martin has secured a U.S. Navy contract modification worth approximately $1.35 billion to support the Conventional Prompt Strike, or CPS, hypersonic weapon program aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Zumwalt, The Defense Post reported.
Under the award, Lockheed’s space business will provide engineering, testing, long lead material, tooling and equipment, and program management services for missile production and platform integration. The majority of work will be performed in Denver, Colorado, with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2032.
Scope of Navy CPS Contract Modification
The award follows the $132.6 million contract modification that the Navy awarded to Lockheed in 2025 to support the program. Lockheed’s space business performed work under the contract in Colorado, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Alabama, Utah, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and other locations until Dec. 31, 2025.
The Strategic Systems Programs in Washington, D.C., served as the contracting activity and obligates $25 million in fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds for the sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification.
In June 2024, Lockheed’s space business secured a $534 million Navy contract modification to provide development, systems engineering and testing services for the program.
In 2023, the Navy awarded the company a $316 million contract modification for continued work on the CPS program.
What Is Conventional Prompt Strike?
The CPS program seeks to build and test common hypersonic boost-glide missiles, or C-HGB, that could rapidly deliver precision-guided, long-range strike capability against enemy defenses. The weapons system has a range exceeding 2,775 kilometers.
U.S. combatant commands plan to launch CPS missiles from Zumwalt-class destroyers and Virginia-class submarines. The CPS modernization on the lead Zumwalt-class ship started in 2023 at HII Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Naval News reported.
The modernization replaced the ship’s Advanced Gun Systems with a Large Missile Vertical Launching System and four CPS 87-inch missile tubes, each capable of carrying three hypersonic missiles.
“The Zumwalt class, with its advanced stealth design and integration of the Conventional Prompt Strike weapons system, will be the Navy’s premier offensive surface combatant, providing sea-based precision capabilities that can effectively engage strategic targets with long-range fires,” stated Capt. Clint Lawler, program manager at the Zumwalt-class destroyer program office.
After USS Zumwalt, the weapon system will also be installed on USS Lyndon B. Johnson and USS Michael Monsoor.
