Contract: Lockheed, $56.9M

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $56,893,635 firm-fixed-price modification (P00062) to a previously awarded contract (N0001917C0001). This modification adds scope to provide non-recurring engineering and engineering change order support to advance the F-35 program’s efforts to adopt a single label approach in support of Item Unique Identification compliancy and traceability for the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy. Work will be performed in Fort Worth (52%); Redondo Beach, Calif. (12%); Orlando, Fla. (9%); Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (25%), and is expected to be completed in August 2024. Fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $29,906,686; and fiscal 2019 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $26,986,949 will be obligated at time of award, $26,986,949 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/24/21) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center and reprogramming labs.