Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Contract: Lockheed, $93.9M

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $93,862,479 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-13-C-0008) for procurement of diminishing manufacturing sources electronic components. The modification will support aircraft production through Lot 14 for U.S. facilities, and Lot 15 for international facilities for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft. Work will be performed in Richardson, Texas (98 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2017. This contract combines purchases for the Air Force (45.04 percent); Navy (13.61 percent); Marine Corps (6.12 percent); foreign military sales customers (16.47 percent); and the international partners (31.79 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting authority. (Source: DoD, 07/06/16) Gulf Coast note: Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is home of the F-35 integrated training center.