L-3 lands another major Navy contract

L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace of Madison, Miss., was being awarded a $64,982,586 modification to a previously awarded Navy contract – on the final day of the government’s FY-13 - to provide additional logistics services and materials for depot level maintenance support work for 36 T-45A and 168 T-45C aircraft based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Meridian, Miss.; NAS Kingsville, Texas; NAS Pensacola, Fla., and Patuxent River, Md. The award also includes maintenance work on the aircrafts’ engines. Meridian will conduct 36 percent and Pensacola 6 percent of the contract. The work is tentatively scheduled to be completed in March 2014. It is the sixth Navy contract award – totaling $273 million - for the Mississippi firm since Sept. 25. Source: Defense Department, Sept. 30, 2013.