 Boeing receives $73.2M to service F/A-18 jets Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 - Boeing Co., was awarded a $73.2 million contract to perform service modifications extending the life of four F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Naval aircraft. The work to extend the life of the planes from 6,000 to 9,000 hours will be performed in St. Louis and El Segundo, Calif., the Defense Department announced on Wednesday. Work is projected to be completed by April 2020. Fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement funds from the Navy of $67.6 million will be allocated with none expiring at the end of the fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md., handled the contracting activity but it was not competitively procured pursuant to to Federal Acquisition Regulation. The F/A-18E, which is a single-seat plane, and F/A-18F tandem-seat variant, began maiden operational deployment on board USS Abraham Lincoln in July 2002. The F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet is the newest version of the plane and serves as the backbone of the Navy carrier wing.
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Lockheed Martin has been awarded two contracts worth more than $155 million for work on the F-35 fighter fleets of the United States and foreign customers.
The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that it has awarded a $148.7 million contract for logistics services for all branches of the U.S. military and foreign customers, as well as $7.4 million for the sustainment of the U.S. Marines' F-35s in California and Japan.
The larger of the two contracts is a modification for logistics services for delivered F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, non-Department of Defense and foreign military sales customers. Work includes ground maintenance activities, depot activation activities, Automatic Logistics Information System operations and maintenance, reliability, maintainability and health management implementation and support, supply chain management and other activities.
Work is projected to be completed by April 18 at the company's site in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as Orlando, Fla., El Segundo, Calif., Greenville, S.C., and Warton, England.
The modified contract is comprised of fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement and fiscal 2018 operation and maintenance funds, including $66.6 million from the Air Force, $29.6 million from the Marine Corps, $18.9 million from the Navy, in addition to $25.3 million from non-DOD participants and $8.3 million from foreign military sales customers.
The second contract is for sustainment services in support of F-35 aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, and Naval Air Station Lemoore in California. Work will be performed at both sites and is expected to be completed by April.
All Navy funds for the sustainment contract were awarded from Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement funding.
In January 2017, the U.S. Marines relocated the first operational F-35B Lightning squadron from a base in Arizona to Japan. The marine branch plans to have the F-35 replace F/A-18 Hornets, A-10 Thunderbolts and various other aircraft.
The F-35B is a variant of the fifth generation fighter built for the U.S. Marine Corps that combines short takeoff and vertical landing abilities with stealth capabilities.
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