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Fort Worth's Lockheed Wins $14.8 Million F-35 Contract Change
Fort Worth's Lockheed Wins $14.8 Million F-35 Contract Change | dal_ftw_txbz, Lockheed, F-35, f35, Lightning II,

sh: The U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay. Lt. Cmdr. Eric "Magic" Buus flew the F-35C for two hours, checking instruments that will measure structural loads on the airframe during

Texas Business reports: A Fort Worth firm won a $14.8 million change to a F-35 acquistion contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

 Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, received a $14,800,000 modification to a previously awarded advance acquisition to procure long lead items for F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter low rate initial production Lot 6 short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft for the Marine Corps. 

Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is necessary to protect the delivery schedules of STOVL aircraft planned for delivery through December 2014. 

Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., handled the contract.