F-35 Flight Gear Excellence: Lockheed Martin’s $23.1M Production Order Unveiled

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $23,108,132 firm-fixed-price order (N0001924F5334) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This order provides for the production and delivery of Lots 15-17 pilot flight equipment, to include the pilot interface connector, chem-bio pilot interface connector, and the chem-bio filtered air supply, in support of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program for the Air Force, Marine Corp, Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2026. Fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $2,719,489; fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,461,366; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $9,387,671; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,180,829; FMS customer funds in the amount of $910,127; and non-U.S. DOD participant funds in the amount of $3,448,650, will be obligated at the time of award, $13,568,500 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.