Contract: Lockheed, $18.5M

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded an $18,472,006 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-firm, cost-sharing contract (N00019-16-C-0033). This modification authorizes the procurement of Diminishing Manufacturing Sources redesign activities in support of the F-35 aircraft. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in January 2024. Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement Air Force funds in the amount of $7,385,847; fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement Navy funds in the amount of $7,385,846; and non-U.S. Department of Defense participant funds in the amount of $3,700,313 will be obligated at time of award, $7,385,847 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines purchases in the amount of $18,472,006 for the Air Force; Navy, and non-U.S. DoD participants. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 05/14/19) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.