Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $67,080,606 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. This contract exercises options to procure repair and replenishment of parts and consumables for the F-35 aircraft in support of the Air Force, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) participants and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth (57%); Orlando, Fla. (26%); Greenville, 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 $43,037,021; non-U.S. DOD participant funds in the amount of $14,306,814; and FMS funds in the amount of $9,736,771 will be obligated at time of award, $43,037,021of 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(a)(ii). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N0001921C0020). (Source: DoD, 09/28/21) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of an F-35 training center and reprogramming labs.
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