Contract: Lockheed, $430.9M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $430,878,490 cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-firm contract for non-air vehicle spares, support equipment, Autonomic Logistics Information System hardware and software upgrades, supply chain management, full mission simulators and non-recurring engineering services in support of low-rate initial production Lot 9 F-35 aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-Department of Defense participants, and foreign military sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (70 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (17 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (7 percent); Owego, N.Y. (4 percent); Greenville, S.C. (1 percent); and Samlesbury, UK (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2022. This contract combines purchases for the Air Force (32 percent); Navy (7 percent); Marine Corps (8 percent); non-Department of Defense participants (44 percent); and FMS customers (10 percent) under the FMS program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-15-C-0114). (Source: DoD, 08/31/15) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.