WASHINGTON – Armed with a combination of effective leadership skills and technical expertise, Engineering Duty Officers (EDO) are the foundation on which the Navy keeps the fleet moving forward. At Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), the command responsible for the development and sustainment of the...

Scott Thompson, a program analyst in Strategic Systems Programs’ (SSP) Enterprise Business Office in Washington, D.C., recently earned the 2024 Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Financial Management Award on Aug. 27, 2025, for his outstanding contribution to data-driven decision-making at a...

The U.S. Navy awarded Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCMN) Prototype Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement (IO U.S.C. § 4022) contracts on September 26, 2025, to two organizations tasked with developing launcher and canister prototype design and fabrication for the...

For seventy years, Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) has produced some of the nation’s most potent defenses, deterring foreign aggressors through the development and deployment of strategic weapons systems. Originally established with the goal of developing the first-ever submarine-launched ballistic...

Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) recently announced Dr. David Shaw as its newest scientific and professional (ST) team member...

Meet Jazzmin Robinson, an electrical engineer at Strategic Systems Programs (SSP)...

WASHINGTON – As the Navy celebrates its 250th birthday, some employees at Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) are marking this occasion by sharing the journey that led them to the command...

Sustaining and modernizing the U.S. Navy’s strategic weapon system (SWS) is no easy feat, requiring experts in fields across the technical and professional spectrum, such as members of the Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) Office of Counsel that ensures the command...

MAGNA, Utah - Six Sailors were given a rare opportunity to peek behind the curtain of the development of the most lethal, accurate, and reliable sea-based strategic deterrent on the planet during a Reverse Strategic Weapons System (SWS) Week August 17-21. ...

ATLANTIC OCEAN - The U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs conducted four scheduled missile test flights of unarmed Trident II D5LE missiles from an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine off the east coast of Florida from September 17-21. One launch test event Sunday evening lit up the night sky...