Contract: Lockheed, $14.4M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $14,426,483 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-13-C-0008) to provide the Reprogramming Center -West, at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Calif., with the primary mission equipment (hardware) required for the laboratory to meet Partner and Foreign Military Sales Mission Data File requirements in support of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program. This contract combines purchases for the governments of Japan (33.4 percent); South Korea (33.3 percent); and Israel (33.3 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Fort Worth and expected to be completed in October 2017. Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $14,426,483 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting authority. (Source: DoD, 06/30/15) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., has one reprogramming lab and will get two more in 2015 and 2016. Background story, full newsletter