Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for hiring and training on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the U.S. and foreign partners.

The contract award from Naval Air Systems Command was announced Monday by the Department of Defense and enables Lockheed Martin to provide "long lead hiring and training activities" to support the Joint Strike Fighter programs of the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, according to the Defense Department.

The contract is valued at more than $8.8 million, which is a a modification to a previous Pentagon award under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.

Work on the contract will occur in Texas and Florida, and is expected to be complete in December 2018.

The total cumulative value of the contract will be obligated to Lockheed Martin at time of award from non-Department of Defense participant funds.

The obligated funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year in September, according to the Pentagon.

Air Force contracts with UTAS for reconnaissance pods
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2018 - UTAS was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for high-resolution imagery and air-to-ground communications.

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $61.3 million under the terms indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award.

The contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center enables UTAS, a division of Goodrich, to provide an increased quantity of the DB-110 tactical reconnaissance pods to the Air Force and other foreign military sales partner nations, the Pentagon said.

The reconnaissance pod provides day and night, high-resolution, wide-area imaging capabilities for F-16 aircraft, as well as other jet fighters, from up to 80 nautical miles away and can collect more than 10,000 square miles of imagery per hour. The pod provides stand-off and vertical imaging capabilities, along with air-to-ground communication over constrained bandwidth systems.

The modification brings the total cumulative value of the original contract to more than $135.4 million.

Work on the contract will occur in Westford, Mass., and is expected to be complete in May 2021.

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