Madison's L-3 awarded $82M+ in defense pacts

Mississippi’s L-3 Communications Systems Field Support, Vertex Aerospace, LLC, was awarded a pair of Defense Department contracts for the Navy last week totaling more than $82 million. On Sept. 28, L-3 was awarded a $55,683,390 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for aircraft maintenance and logistical life cycle support for 54 C-12 aircraft for the Navy and Marine Corps. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., (34 percent); Corpus Christi, Texas (12 percent); Winnipeg, Canada (34 percent) and various locations both inside and outside the continental United States (20 percent) including: Yuma, Ariz.; New Orleans; Miramar, Calif.; New River, N.C.; Patuxent River, Md.; Manassas, Va.; Beaufort, S.C.; Japan, Cuba, and Bahrain. Work is expected to be completed in September 2013. And on Sept. 26, L-3 was awarded a $27,293,685 indefinite-delivery requirements contract for TH-57 helicopters. Services to be provided include repair and/or overhaul of aircraft, engines, avionics and related components. Work will be performed at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Milton, Fla., and is expected to be completed in March 2013. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is contracting activity for both projects. Source: Defense Department.