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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Lockheed Martin Receives Contract Award for MK 41 Vertical Launching System

VLS Mk-41 Missile CanistersThe U.S. Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to provide engineering design services for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) that helps protect the fleet from numerous naval warfare threats. This $10 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes options, which if exercised would bring the total contract value to $182 million.

As the only system capable of launching anti-air, anti-submarine, surface-to-surface and strike missiles, the MK 41 VLS can receive orders from multiple weapon control systems to handle every warfighting mission.

Lockheed Martin has been the prime contractor on the VLS for more than 32 years.

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