Lockheed Martin Secures $141.4M Navy Mod for F-35 Retrofit Activities

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $141,405,173 modification (P00015) to a cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001923F0002) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This modification exercises options as well as adds new scope to support modification and retrofit activities for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program to include program management, non-recurring engineering, aircraft induction, contractor field modification installations, depot site support, F-35B/F-35C laser shock peening site support, and regional depot modification installations for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 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 2024 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $469,225; fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $151,564; fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $523,568; fiscal 2026 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $39,976,110; fiscal 2026 procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $37,607,270; FMS funds in the amount of $19,250,372; and non-U.S. DoD participant funds in the amount of $43,427,064 will be obligated at the time of award, $620,789 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract action was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.