Lockheed Gets $385 Million to Modernize Apache Helicopter's Sensor

Posted on: Jun. 7th, 2006 || Source: defenselink.mil | E-mail Article | Print Article

[Pentagon Contract Announcement] Lockheed Martin, Orlando, Fla., was awarded on June 1, 2006, a $385,576,594 firm-fixed-price contract for the modernized target acquisition designation sight/pilot's night vision sensor for the Apache aircraft.

Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

This was a sole source contract initiated on Aug. 12, 2005. The Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-06-C-0169).
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