Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office are expected to need a six-month stop-gap contract before inking a deal for sustainment through 2023, company officials say.
Local Navy Contract Awards; April 12-April 30, 2021
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June 01, 2021
WASHINGTON (June 1, 2021) The U.S. Department of Defense announced the following contract awards that pertain to local Navy activities.
Contracts For April 12, 2021
Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, New York, is awarded a
$447,230,778 firm-fixed-price order (N0001921F0841) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001921G0017). This order provides for the production and delivery of 12 MH-60R aircraft for the government of the Republic of Korea. Work will be performed in Owego, New York (52%); Stratford, Connecticut (40%); and Troy, Alabama (8%), and is expected to be completed in December 2024. Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $447,230,778 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The
AMRAAM Joint Program Office completes second live firing of new AIM-120D-3
26 May 2021
by Robin Hughes
The Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Joint Program Office (JPO) completed the second live-fire test of the new AIM-120D-3 variant AMRAAM over the US Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Point Mugu Sea Test Range in California on May 12. An initial AIM-120D-3 live-fire test was conducted on 9 December 2020. AMRAAM is managed as a joint programme between the US Air Force (USAF) and US Navy (USN), with USAF as the lead service.
During the live-fire test, the AIM-120D-3 weapon was launched from a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet and flew the expected flight path over the Sea Test Range. “These first two live-fire shots were unguided missile shots to verify the missile’s auto pilot for aircraft safe separation and to prove out the new GPS-IMU [global positioning system-inertial measurement unit] navigation and control system,” a spokesperson from the
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HASC: Congress Let DoD Buy Too Many F-35 Fighters But Not Enough F-35 Spares, Sustainment
April 22, 2021 5:59 PM
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Cosme Zamora, from Compton, Calif., assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6), signals an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) on the ship’s flight deck on Jan. 21, 2021. US Navy Photo
The House Armed Services Committee has little appetite for buying any F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes beyond the official Biden administration request – in contrast to the past seven years, when Congress has added a whopping 97 planes beyond the president’s budget request – as a result of low readiness rates and ongoing maintenance and supply challenges.