A unit of military contractor General Dynamics Corp. has been awarded a three-year contract with a potential value of $110 million to produce integrated circuits for the U.S. Navy’s Trident II (D5) submarine-launched ballistic missile program.
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems’ contract was awarded by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
The Navy program is designed to extend the service life of the Trident submarine and the Trident II (D5) missile.
General Dynamics also is providing circuit card assemblies for the Trident (D5) missile and guidance systems.
Nufern in East Granby also is a subcontractor on the project, in which it will produce next-generation fiber-optic guidance gyros for the missiles.
The principle subcontractor to General Dynamics for the wafer foundry services is Honeywell International and work will be performed at its Plymouth, Minn., facility. (AP)
