- The Navy contract modification was structured as cost-plus-fixed-fee
- The work advances the fire control subsystem for a nuclear-armed cruise missile on Virginia-class subs
- GDMS expects to add roughly 200 jobs in Massachusetts and Virginia
General Dynamics Mission Systems is providing engineering and technical services for the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear-Armed, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile, or SLCM-N, Fire Control Subsystem under a $194 million contract modification, structured as cost-plus-fixed-fee. The Pittsfield, Massachusetts-based company announced the Navy contract modification Monday.
Work started in April through an undefinitized contract action and is scheduled to run through September 2028. Roughly three-quarters of the effort will be in Pittsfield, with Manassas, Virginia, handling the rest.
Laura Hooks, general manager and vice president of the company’s maritime and strategic systems unit, called SLCM-N a national priority that the Navy wants fielded on an accelerated schedule.
With the subsystem, Virginia-class submarines could carry and integrate the future nuclear-armed missile.
How Will GDMS Support the SLCM-N Program?
Under the contract, engineers will bring experience in mission planning, weapon control, system testing and platform integration, Hooks said, citing the company’s 70-plus years of strategic work for the submarine fleet and its role as prime integrator on the Trident II Fire Control System.
General Dynamics is spending $1.3 million to modify its Pittsfield and Manassas facilities for the program. The outlay adds to earlier internal research and development investments and will boost the company’s capacity to engineer and test fire control systems.
The award is expected to create about 200 engineering and manufacturing jobs.
What Other Navy Work Does General Dynamics Hold?
GDMS has supported other Navy undersea programs. In September 2025, the unit booked a contract worth about $91.2 million to supply submarine-tethered expendable buoy systems that provide data for communications, situational awareness and collision avoidance.
Sister company General Dynamics Electric Boat received a $1 billion undefinitized contract modification in March 2025 to purchase long-lead-time materials for Block VI Virginia-class submarines, the platform slated to host SLCM-N.
Across the surface fleet, General Dynamics Information Technology secured a $988 million Navy contract for C5ISR modernization on surface combatants. General Dynamics NASSCO has won Navy maintenance and repair work on the USS America and the USS Oak Hill.
