General Electric Rolls-Royce Awarded Contract for F136

General Electric Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio was awarded on Aug. 19, 2005, a $2,466,258,499 cost- plus-award-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Joint Strike Fighter F136 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) Program. This contract provides for continued efforts required to meet SDD Program milestones and mitigate technical, schedule, and cost risk, resulting in the delivery of six flight test engines to Lockheed Martin. Work will be performed in Evandale, Ohio (60 percent); Indianapolis, Ind. (25 percent); and Bristol, United Kingdom (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-04-C-0093).