The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office (JPO) intends to solicit and negotiate multiple contract actions with Lockheed Martin Corporation,
Contract actions will provide for long lead time materials, parts, components, and effort; Ancillary Mission Equipment (AME); Production Non-Recurring (PNR) activities to support the F-35 production ramp rate including tooling, test equipment, production aids, production equipment, and support labor
; technical, financial and administrative data; and proposal preparation.
Contract actions will also provide for associated sustainment support including spares, support equipment,
non-recurring autonomic logistics sustainment activities, training, Autonomic Logistics Information Systems (ALIS) hardware, depot activation,
Performance Based Logistics (PBL)
operations, and maintenance for all F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C aircraft; and
all efforts associated with the procurement of hardware for and sustainment of Joint Reprogramming Enterprise (JRE).
In addition, there will be ordering line items to allow for
additional supplies and services, including but not limited to Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) procurements,
retrofit efforts required to update accepted aircraft to newer configurations, Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), and Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) maintenance.
Ref.
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportun...=core&_cview=1
Nice for the shareholders [and indeed
all stakeholder parties] they will be wading in greenbacks.
Can I ask confirmation of how long the gestation period has been now?