Contract: Lockheed, $1.3B

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $1,287,572,649 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-firm undefinitized contract. This contract procures recurring logistics services, including ground maintenance activities, action request resolution, depot activation activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, reliability, maintainability and health management implementation, and support, supply chain management and activities to provide and support pilot and maintainer initial training in support of in-service F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter air systems for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) participants and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth (61%); Orlando, Fla. (24%); Greenville, S.C. (8%); Samlesbury, United Kingdom (4%); and El Segundo, Calif. (3%), and is expected to be completed in December 2021. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Air Force) funds in the amount of $100,333,061; fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $50,285,845; fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $22,734,321; fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Air National Guard) funds in the amount of $6,529,952; non-U.S. DOD participant funds in the amount of $88,418,881; and FMS funds in the amount of $43,569,059 will be obligated at time of award, $179,883,179 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-21-C-0020). (Source: DoD, 12/28?20) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center and reprogramming labs.