Contract: Lockheed, $735.5M

Lockheed Martin Space System Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., has been awarded a $735,514,938 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for satellite sustainment. Contractor will provide sustainment of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF), Milstar, and Defense Satellite Communications System III. Work will be performed at Sunnyvale, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., and Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., and is expected to be complete by Nov. 30, 2015. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Space and Missile Systems Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity (FA8823-15-C-0001). (Source: DoD, 05/21/15) Gulf Coast note: Core propulsion subsystem work the AEHF is done by Lockheed Martin at Stennis Space Center, Miss.