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Record Date: December 19, 2023

Tools of the Trade: BAE Systems Lands $77.3M Deal for F-35 Aircraft Modifications

BAE Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire, is awarded a $77,302,342 cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract to procure various special tooling and special test equipment in support of production and retrofit modifications for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, and non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will be performed in Loveland, Colorado (42%); Amesbury, Massachusetts (13%); Billerica, Massachusetts (5%); Chelmsford, Massachusetts (3%); Irvine, California (3%); Maple Grove, Minnesota (3%); San Jose, California (3%); Fremont, New Hampshire (2%); Linthicum, Maryland (1%); Andover, Massachusetts (1%); Hudson, New Hampshire (1%); Endicott, New York (1%); Melville, New York (1%); Wenatchee, Washington (1%); Wallingford, Connecticut (1%); Eden Prairie, Minnesota (1%); Greeneville, Tennessee (1%); Santa Ana California (1%); Londonderry, New Hampshire (1%); Boise, Idaho (1%); Amherst, New Hampshire (1%); Los Angeles, California (1%); Westbrook, Maine (1%), and various locations within the continental U.S. (11%), and is expected to be completed in December 2027. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,026,452; fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $9,026,451; fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $2,408,774; fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,588,266; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $4,529,250; fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,529,250; FMS customer funds in the amount of $1,342,115, and non-U.S. DOD participants funds in the amount of $5,814,104 will be obligated at time of award, $9,058,500 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(a)(1). Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001924C0010).