Contract: Lockheed Martin, $6.8M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $6,808,493 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-15-C-0031) to provide interim contractor sustainment services in support of the F-35 Lightening II low rate initial production lot aircraft for the Air Force. Work will be performed at Luke Air Force Base, Glendale, Ariz., and is expected to be completed in November 2015. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/30/15) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.