DOD awards $743M contract modification to Lockheed for JSF Lot 9

The Pentagon recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $743 million contract modification for the ninth lot of Joint Strike Fighter jets.

The fixed-price-incentive, firm target and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification provides "additional funding and will establish not-to-exceed (NTE) prices for diminishing manufacturing and material shortages redesign and development, estimated post production concurrency changes and country unique requirements," according to the Oct. 17 Defense Department contract announcement.

This includes instituting NTE prices for one F-35A conventional-takeoff-and-landing jet and one F-35B short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing aircraft for a "non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participant in the F-35 program," the announcement reads.

The work will be conducted in Texas, California, the United Kingdom, Florida, New Hampshire, Japan and Maryland.

Inside Defense reported in April the Pentagon awarded Pratt & Whitney a $1 billion low-rate initial production contract modification for Lot 9 F135 propulsion systems.