Contract: Lockheed, $769.5M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $769,511,730 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-firm contract (N00019-15-C-0114) for recurring logistics sustainment services support for delivered F-35 aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-Department of Defense participants, and foreign military sales customers. Support to be provided includes ground maintenance activities; action request resolution; depot activation activities; Automatic Logistics Information System operations and maintenance; reliability, maintainability and health management implementation support; supply chain management; and activities to provide and support pilot and maintainer initial training. Work will be performed in Ft. Worth, Texas (46 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (7 percent); Warton, United Kingdom (9 percent); Orlando, Fla. (32 percent); and Greenville, S.C. (6 percent). Work is expected to be completed in December 2016. This contract combines purchases for the Air Force (48 percent); Marine Corps (24 percent); Navy (15 percent); international partners (12 percent); and foreign military sales (1 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 02/29/16) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.