Contract: L-3 Vertex, $125M

L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a $125,000,000 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for logistics services and materials for organizational, intermediate, and depot level maintenance required to support 47 T-45A and 158 T-45C aircraft based at Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss.; NAS Kingsville, Texas; NAS Pensacola, Fla., and Patuxent River, Md. This requirement also includes the organizational level maintenance for the engine. Work will be performed in Kingsville, Texas (54 percent); Meridian, Miss. (41 percent); Pensacola, Fla. (4 percent); and Patuxen River (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2011. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/27/10)