Contract: Chemring Australia, $22M

Chemring Australia Pty Ltd., Lara, Victoria, Australia, is awarded a $21,983,931 firm-fixed-price contract to procure 10,089 MJU-68/B flare infrared countermeasures; 4,628 for the Navy, 1,440 for the Air Force, 685 for the government of Israel, 312 for the government of Netherlands, 504 for the government of Norway, and 2,520 for the government of Great Britain in support of the F-35 Lightning II program. Work will be performed in Lara, Victoria, Australia (47%); San Diego, Calif. (28%); Toone, Tenn. (24%); and Braeside, Victoria, Australia (1%), and is expected to be completed in July 2022. Fiscal 2021 procurement of ammunition (Navy and Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $10,075,696; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount $3,137,760; fiscal 2019 procurement of ammunition (Navy and Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $8,716; and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $8,761,759 will be obligated at time of award, $8,716 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N0001921C0081). (Source: DoD, 09/24/21) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center and reprogramming labs.