Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Boosts JSF with $138.5M Tooling Contract
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $138,456,123 cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract to procure various special tooling and special test equipment in support of production, retrofit modifications and flight test instrumentation for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will be performed in Merrimack, New Hampshire (46%); Fort Worth, Texas (18.3%); Samlesbury, United Kingdom (11.5%); San Diego, California (5.9%); Karmiel, Israel (5.5%); Hoogeveen, Netherlands (2%); Winfield, Kansas (1.9%); Cosgrove Close, Worcester, United Kingdom (1.4%); Wilsonville, Oregon (1.3%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (6.2%), and is expected to be completed in December 2026. Fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $14,276,162; fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $13,409,392; fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $5,750,000; fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $5,750,000; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $1,912,896; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,912,896; FMS customer funds in the amount of $1,417,792 and non-U.S. DOD participants funds in the amount of $10,343,897 will be obligated at time of award, $15,325,792 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(a)(1). Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001924C0011).
