U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), Contracts. 5 p.m. ET June 27, 2006:
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Ft. Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $115,836,036 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract. This modification provides for integration of the United Kingdom version of the joint strike fighter (JSF) air system with the United Kingdom carrier version future (CVF) under the JSF systems development and demonstration effort. Work will be performed in Warton, United Kingdom (57 percent), Fort Worth, Texas (35 percent), Orlando, Fla. (5 percent), and El Segundo, Calif. (3 percent), and is expected to be completed in October 2013. 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.