Contract: Lockheed, $8.5M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $8,461,238 for modification to previously issued delivery order N0001917F0108 placed against basic ordering agreement N00019-14-G-0020 for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. This modification procures additional verification and validation system support for country-specific mission data files for the foreign military sales customer’s operational aircraft. Work will be performed in Point Mugu, Calif. (75 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/11/17) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.