Lockheed Martin Scores F-35 Lightning II Deal

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $29,5 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to define the tasks required to update the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Air System to be in compliance with informational security functional constraints.

Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida (70 percent) and Fort Worth, Texas (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2017.

No funds are being obligated at time of award.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

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Press Release, July 03, 2014; Image: Wikimedia