Lockheed Martin to Provide GPS Launch Capabilities

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Space System Company, Newtown, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $21,571,340 cost-plus-incentive-fee with award fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to procure a launch checkout and capabilities system that will perform launch and early orbit activities of the Global Position System III satellites from a contractor facility co-located. U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, El Segundo, California, is the contracting activity.