Don Bacon
OT: F-35 contract to LockMart, announced today
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $920,350,132 advance acquisition contract for long lead time, materials, parts, components, and effort for the manufacture and delivery of 94 F-35 Lightning II low rate initial production aircraft. This contract provides for 78 F-35A aircraft for the Air Force (44), the government of Italy (2), the government of Turkey (2) ; the government of Australia (8); the government of Norway (6); and for various foreign military sales customers (16). In addition, this contract provides for the procurement of 14 F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps (9), the government of Britain (3) and the government of Italy (2), as well as 2 F-35C aircraft fo r the Navy and Marine Corps....
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $920,350,132 advance acquisition contract for long lead time, materials, parts, components, and effort for the manufacture and delivery of 94 F-35 Lightning II low rate initial production aircraft. This contract provides for 78 F-35A aircraft for the Air Force (44), the government of Italy (2), the government of Turkey (2) ; the government of Australia (8); the government of Norway (6); and for various foreign military sales customers (16). In addition, this contract provides for the procurement of 14 F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps (9), the government of Britain (3) and the government of Italy (2), as well as 2 F-35C aircraft fo r the Navy and Marine Corps....
changes from Lot 9 plan, US a/c 2015 LRIP-9--
A 28 --> 44
B 6 --> 9
C 4 --> 2
total US 38 --> 55
total foreign 23 --> 39
A 28 --> 44
B 6 --> 9
C 4 --> 2
total US 38 --> 55
total foreign 23 --> 39
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The LRIP # is not specified which is unusual. The plan was for Australia to buy none this year, ten turkeys in FY2016.
FY2015 funds are obligated, but the award says "..expected to be completed in May 2019."
Bogdan has said he wants to issue a "block buy" (multi-year in disguise) contract this summer for three years, for 150 planes total. This buy totals 94.
Therefore this looks like an amorphous multi-LP-lot plan.
--So let's see what the news reports say and then we can look at the specific numbers.
May 2019!! --A month after Milestone C, BTW. Four years. hmmmm
http://www.defense.gov/
* UPDATE *
The LRIP # is not specified which is unusual. The plan was for Australia to buy none this year, ten turkeys in FY2016.
FY2015 funds are obligated, but the award says "..expected to be completed in May 2019."
Bogdan has said he wants to issue a "block buy" (multi-year in disguise) contract this summer for three years, for 150 planes total. This buy totals 94.
Therefore this looks like an amorphous multi-LP-lot plan.
--So let's see what the news reports say and then we can look at the specific numbers.
May 2019!! --A month after Milestone C, BTW. Four years. hmmmm
http://www.defense.gov/
* UPDATE *
Don Bacon
This was posted above (in a flash) before I edited it --Good!The plan was for Australia to buy none this year, eight [not ten] turkeys in FY2016. There are 8 in this award for Oz.
Also
Note this is (almost a billion dollars) for long lead time items (LLT).
Some later end item contracts in the past have been less than the
LLT quantities.
The news & tweets haven't picked it up yet.
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