Contract: Lockheed, $559.5M

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $559,500,000 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 10 F-35 aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Non Department of Defense (DoD) Participants, and Foreign Military Sales customers. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (79 percent); Redondo Beach, Calif. (10 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (9 percent); and Samlesbury, United Kingdom (2 percent), and is expected to be completed July 2022. This contract combines purchases for the non DoD participants (46 percent); Air Force (23 percent); foreign military sales customers (19 percent); Navy (6 percent); and Marine Corps (6 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-16-C-0004). (Source: DoD, 07/07/16) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.