Thursday, April 9, 2015

Contract: Lockheed, $150.6M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $150,609,953 fixed-price-incentive contract to provide an integrated reprogramming capability to build, test, modify, and field F-35 mission data files for Australia and the United Kingdom. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas and is expected to be completed in December 2018. International partner funds in the amount of $150,609,953 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines purchases for the Governments of Australia (55 percent) and United Kingdom (45 percent). This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting authority (N00019-15-C-0105). (Source: DoD, 04/09/15) Gulf Coast note: Groundbreaking for the Australia, Canada, United Kingdom Reprogramming Lab (ACURL) at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., will be this summer. Details