Contract: Lockheed, $237.8M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded not-to-exceed $237,765,479 for delivery order 0031 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0020) for initial spares in support of low-rate initial production Lot 9 F-35 aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participants and Foreign Military Sales customers. Spares to be procured include F-35 common spares; F-35A, B, and C variant unique spares; and aloft spares packages and deployment spare packages. Work will be performed in Texas, New York, California, Maryland, Florida, New Hampshire, United Kingdom, Iowa, Georgia, and Connecticut, and is expected to be completed in June 2017. This order combines purchases for the Air Force (41 percent); Navy (14 percent); non-U.S. DoD participants (37 percent); and Foreign Military Sales customers (8 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 06/25/15)