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Lockheed Martin Nabs $1.56 Billion Contract In F-35 Logistics Support

Thursday, June 27th, 2024

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Lockheed Martin Nabs $1.56 Billion Contract In F-35 Logistics Support

Pictured is an F-35A at Hill AFB, Utah on Feb. 22 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1.56 billion contract to procure various logistics support for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter air systems for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Foreign Military sales customers and non-DoD participants. This specifically covers ground maintenance activities, action request solution, depot activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, reliability and maintainability, supply chain management, pilot training, maintainer training, and training system sustainment in support of delivered F-35s. The work will mostly be split among…

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