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Report: DoD Aims to Save $660M on 100 Lockheed-Built F-35As

Report: DoD Aims to Save $660M on 100 Lockheed-Built F-35As - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Report: DoD Aims to Save $660M on 100 Lockheed-Built F-35As - top government contractors - best government contracting eventThe Defense Department aims to generate at least 5 percent in savings on the cost of the next batch of 130 Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jets, Reuters reported Monday.

Mike Stone writes sources said Lockheed and DoD are in talks over a deal that seeks to save $660 million on the next lot of 100 F-35A planes for the U.S. Air Force and allied troops.

That figure reflects a 5 to 7 percent reduction in the price of the company’s takeoff-and-landing aircraft model, sources told the publication.

The news on current negotiations came two months after the company finalized an $8.5 billion contract with DoD to deliver 90 lot 10 F-35s and nearly a month after Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, head of the F-35 joint program office, said that his office expects Lockheed to cut the price of F-35A to $80 million or less per unit by 2020.

Lockheed has begun to collaborate with Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems and United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary to establish a supply chain for the Fort Worth, Texas-based production line as part of cost-reduction efforts for the F-35 program, the report added.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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