Around 150 defence jobs in Fife and Bristol have been secured after engineering giant Babcock picked up an £80 million missiles contract.
The group will manufacture 22 tactical missile tube assemblies for the UK successor nuclear submarine fleet and the US Ohio Class programme under the contract with General Dynamics Electric Boat.
Work on the assembles is expected to begin before the ned of this year and run until at least 2020, with options to extend thereafter.
UK Defence Minister Harriet Baldwin said she was delighted that Babcock had secured the deal.
“This contract is a strong endorsement of our highly skilled and globally competitive defence industry and will secure around 150 jobs in Rosyth,” she said.
“With Faslane set to be home of all the Royal Navy’s submarines by 2020, this is further evidence of the benefits that defence brings to the economy and to Scotland.”
Babcock chief executive Archie Bethel said it was a major coup for the group.
He said: “Supporting Electric Boat with the CMC project for the future submarines also underpins our wider involvement in the UK Successor programme where we have already secured the supply of other critical equipment and are also heavily involved in the design phase with a focus on the overall through life performance and operational cost of the future platforms.”