Contract: Lockheed, $8M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $8,002,763 for modification P00003 to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-17-C-0045) for recurring logistics support and sustainment services for F-35 aircraft in support of the government of Israel under the Foreign Military Sales program. Sustainment services to be provided include ground maintenance, action request resolution, depot activation activities, Automatic Logistics Information System, operations and maintenance, reliability, maintainability, and health management implementation and support, supply chain management, and activities to provide and support pilot and maintainer initial training. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (70 percent); Greenville, S.C. (25 percent); and Fort Worth (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2017. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 07/24/17) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.