Lockheed Martin Receives $312 Million AEHF Contract Modification

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, is being awarded a $312.2 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification for engineering support for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite program from December 1, 2011 to December 31, 2014. Support is provided for on-orbit anomaly resolution and investigation, flight and payload software sustainment following the completion of on-orbit test, Networked AEHF System Tested tool sustainment, mission control familiarization, and development test. Additional supported tasks including hardware, software, training and logistics support, technical order maintenance, system security and information assurance engineering, coordination with the Milstar O&M contractor, satellite database updates for Milstar and AEHF, and on-site technical support for satellite operations at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, as well as support for AEHF and Milstar combined constellation integration transition and test activities. The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate, Los Angeles, California, is the contracting activity.