Contract: L3 Vertex, $173M

L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded $172,984,042 for modification P00017 to exercise an option to a previously awarded firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery, requirements contract (N00019-14-D-0011). This option provides for organizational, intermediate, and depot level maintenance, logistics, and engineering to support and maintain 201 Navy T-45 Goshawk aircraft, aircraft systems, and related support equipment to support flight and test and evaluation operations. Work will be performed at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas (45.7 percent); NAS Meridian, Miss. (41.7 percent); Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. (10.1 percent); and Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. (2.5 percent), and is expected to be completed September 2018. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 08/23/17)