US Navy Awards Modification Contracts for JSF and H-1 Programs

Released on Friday, July 27, 2007

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an estimated $2,440,000,000 advance acquisition contract for long lead components, parts, and materials associated with the Lot 2 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP II) of six F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) for the U.S. Air Force and six Short Take-off and Vertical Landing Air Systems for the U.S. Marine Corp. In addition, the contract provides for associated ancillary mission equipment, sustainment support, special tooling/special test equipment and technical/financial data. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (75.5 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (15.6 percent); and Samlesbury, United Kingdom (8.9 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity (N00019-07-C-0097).

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $162,279,829 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive fee contract (N00019-06-C-0086) to exercise an option for the Fiscal Year 2007 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot IV procurement of nine (9) UH-1Y aircraft and two (2) AH-1Z aircraft. Work will be performed in Hurst, Texas (80 percent) and Amarillo, Texas (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in October 2009. 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.