Lockheed Martin awarded $8.86 million contract for initial test of Guam Aegis

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded an $8.86 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. for the initial test of the Aegis Guam System, which the company is commissioned to build under its existing contract.

The new sole-source award represented a modification to Lockheed Martin’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon Systems contract pegged at $1.46 billion.

The additional $8.86 million would cover the Aegis checks and tests, operators and maintainers, cybersecurity efforts, and software development for a multi-vertical launch system launcher farm, according to the Department of Defense's contract award announcement.

“The work will be performed in Moorestown, New Jersey, within the current period of performance,”  DOD said.

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The Aegis system, a sophisticated naval weapons system developed by the U.S. Navy, is designed to defend against advanced air and surface threats. As a component of Guam’s integrated air and missile defense architecture, it is designed to provide 360-degree protection for the island.

It is a fully integrated system, consisting of missile launching systems, computer programs, radar and displays, known for its ability to detect, track and engage multiple targets simultaneously.

"The Aegis Guam system and the U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Battle Command System will work together to defend against simultaneous cruise, ballistic, maneuvering, and hypersonic attacks," Lockheed Martin states on its website.

In December 2024, Lockheed Martin’s land-based version of the SPY-7 radar, known as TPY-6, successfully intercepted a mid-range ballistic missile as part of the Aegis Guam System during a flight experiment Flight Experiment Mission-02.

Earlier this week, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific awarded a $295 million contract to Core Tech-HDCC-Kajima LLC for the construction of the Guam defense system’s command center.

The Guam missile defense project is the centerpiece of the Indo-Pacific Command’s Pacific Deterrence Initiative, aimed at countering any potential attack from China.

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