Contract: Lockheed, $8.5M

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $8,546,988 for modification P00005 to a previously issued order 0045, placed against basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0020). This order authorizes award of additional unique F-35 Joint Strike Fighter distributed mission training capability efforts for the Navy, Marine Corps, and the government of the United Kingdom. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (70 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (15 percent); Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (9 percent); Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz. (2 percent); Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif. (2 percent); and Marham, United Kingdom (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in May 2021. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy and Marine Corps); and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participant funds in the amount of $2,476,891 will be funded at time of award, $1,238,749 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Navy (27 percent); Marine Corps (23 percent); and non-U.S. DoD participants (50 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/19/18) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.