Lockheed Tapped For F-35 Service Extension | Leonardo Unveiled AW249 | State Department Approved Sales To Taipei

Americas Lockheed Martin won a $63 million modification, which extends services to provide continued infrastructure support, to include engineering, maintenance, logistics, manpower, and material for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) laboratory facilities and F-35 developmental flight test activities in support of the F-35 JSF program for the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and F-35 cooperative program partners. Work is expected to be completed in August 2024. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Raytheon won a $35 million firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract to procure materials necessary to support the production and delivery of 18 APY-10 Radar Systems, to include 14 for the government of Canada; three for the government of Germany; and one for the Navy in support of the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas and is expected to be completed in September 2028. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Middle East & Africa The Israeli military said Tuesday operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were “approved and validated,” as Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement engaged in cross-border exchanges of fire. Senior Israeli military officials “held a joint situational assessment in the Northern Command. As […]