Thursday, September 29, 2016

Contract: Lockheed, $24.4M

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $24,378,036 for modification P00003 under a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract (N00019-16-C-0004) for procurement of three full mission simulators for the Air Force in support of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (98 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (2 percent), and is expected to be completed March 2020. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/29/16) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.