Lockheed Receives Squad X Core Technologies Funds

Lockheed Martin Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, has been awarded Option One on contract HR0011-15-C-0147, totaling $10,661,069, under modification P00002, adding Phase II tasks to the previously awarded procurement contract for the Squad X Core Technologies (SXCT) program. As a result of the award of the Phase II option, the total amount of the contract is increased by $10,661,069 from $2,715,590 to $13,376,659. Work will be performed in the following locations: Grand Prairie, Texas (90 percent); and Mesa, Arizona (10 percent). Phase II of the SXCT program is expected to complete in early 2018. Fiscal 2016 research and development funds in the amount of $10,000,000 are being obligated at time of P00002 award. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity.