Contract: Lockheed, $46.6M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded $46,569,974 for cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order 0097 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0020). This delivery order provides for non-recurring engineering, the development of design documentation, and the creation of modification instructions. These efforts will support service life extension and enable the developmental test F-35 aircraft to maintain currency with delivered technology. Work will be performed in Fort Worth and is expected to be completed in June 2019. Fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy and Marine Corps); and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participant funds in the amount of $32,646,275 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This delivery order combines purchases for the Navy (38 percent); Marine Corps (38 percent); and non-U.S. DoD participants (24 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 05/30/18) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.