Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Contract: Lockheed, $2B

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $2,014,074,283 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract definitization. This contract provides logistics support, to include ground maintenance activities, action request resolution, depot activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, reliability and maintainability, supply chain management, pilot training, maintainer training, and training system sustainment in support of delivered F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter air systems for the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will be performed in Fort Worth (57%); Orlando, Fla. (26%); Greeneville, S.C. (11%); Samlesbury, United Kingdom (4%); and El Segundo, Calif. (2%), and is expected to be completed in December 2021. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Air Force) funds in the amount of $822,014,213; fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Marine Corps) funds in the amount of $382,221,083; fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $176,725,435; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $2,292,773; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,210,802; FMS funds in the amount of $217,257,071; and non-U.S. DOD participant funds in the amount of $412,352,906 will be obligated at time of award, $1,380,960,731 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N0001921C0020). (Source: DoD, 09/13/21) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center and reprogramming labs.