Lockheed Awarded $441m Contract Modification for F-35 LRIP Lot III

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $441,938,182 modification to definitize the previously awarded Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Air System Low Rate Initial Production Lot III advance acquisition contract (N00019-08-C-0028) to a cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee contract.

In addition, this modification provides for common and unique performance based logistics support and hardware for the sustainment of

• seven U.S. Air Force and one Government of the Netherlands Conventional Take-Off and Landing aircraft
• seven U.S. Marine Corps and two United Kingdom (UK) Short Take-Off Vertical-Landing aircraft
• material necessary to support activation of JSF bases;
• two Aircraft Systems Maintenance Trainers;
• one Weapons Loader Trainer;
• two Full Mission Simulators;
• one USMC and one UK Deployable Mission Rehearsal Trainer;
• sixteen LM-STAR avionics test stations;
• hardware and software for the Integrated Training Center;
• CVN Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) shipboard certification and deployment;
• ALIS depot trade study;
• and associated technical and financial data.

Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla. (42 percent); Fort Worth, Texas, (37 percent); El Segundo, Calif., (9 percent); Warton, United Kingdom, (4 percent); Nashua, N.H. (2 percent); Baltimore, Md., (1.5 percent); Cleveland, Ohio, (1.2 percent); Cheltenham, United Kingdom (1.2 percent); Rolling Meadows, Ill., (1.1 percent) and San Diego, Calif., (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2011.

Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

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