Contract: Lockheed, $232.8M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $232,794,734 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to the previously awarded F-35 Low Rate Initial Production Lot VI contract (N00019-11-C-0083). This modification provides for non-recurring sustainment activities, to include procurement of 19 training devices and 69 items of complex support equipment. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (96 percent); Owego, N.Y. (2 percent); and Fort Worth (2 percent) and is expected to be completed in June 2017. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 08/15/14) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the multi-service F-35 training center.