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Lockheed Martin Receives $2.2 Billion F-35 Sustainment Contract

Lockheed Martin Receives $2.2 Billion F-35 Sustainment Contract
U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Mills, F-35 Lightning II pilot and 57th Operations Group commander, performs pre-flight checks before launching to participate in Red Flag 21-3 at Nellis AFB, Nev. on Aug. 3 last year. Red Flag 21-3 was the first Red Flag exercise in which "blue air" participants went head-to-head with F-35 Lightning II aggressor pilots, the Air Force said (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a more than $2.2 billion sustainment contract for the F-35 fighter through December next year, DoD said on Dec. 8. The contract "exercises an option to provide logistics support, to include ground maintenance activities, action request solution, depot activities, automatic logistics information system [ALIS] operations and maintenance, reliability and maintainability, supply chain management, pilot training, maintainer training, and training system sustainment in support of delivered F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter air systems for the…

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