Contract Award: Lockheed Martin Corp. (Herndon, Virginia) – $27,387,206

Lockheed Martin Corp., Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $27,387,206 contract for Global Broadcast Service (GBS) architecture sustaining engineering. This contract provides for architecture sustaining engineering support to ensure the GBS is available to users worldwide.  GBS provides worldwide continuous one-way high-speed information flow over Wideband Global Satellite Communications military KA-band satellites to disseminate information products to deployed and in-garrison forces. Work will be performed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado; Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado; and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2026. Fiscal 2022 Space Force operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $992,000 will be obligated at time of award. Space Systems Command, Los Angeles AFB, California, is the contracting activity (FA8823-22-C-0001). (Awarded Dec. 16, 2021)