Lockheed, U.S. Air Force reach agreement on C-130 multiyear deal, Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday said it had accomplished a exact acceding with the U.S. Air Force on a five-year arrangement to body up to 83 C-130J Super Hercules carriage planes for the Air Force, Coast Guard and Marine Corps through 2020.
The aggregation said its ambition was to complete the actual arrangement actions, certifications and aldermanic notifications and agree the accord by the end of the year,
Pentagon abstracts put the bulk of a 79-aircraft accord at about $5.9 billion in 2013, if negotiations over the acceding aboriginal began.
"We accept accomplished a exact acceding on the C-130J multiyear II contract," Lockheed agent Joe LaMarca told Reuters in acknowledgment to a query. He gave no data on the bulk of the multiyear deal, or the bulk of accumulation it would provide, compared to affairs the airplanes one year at a time.
The acceding was accomplished backward endure anniversary afterwards over two years of negotiations. It was not anon bright why the negotiations took so continued to conclude.
Lockheed admiral told Reuters in September 2013 that they accepted the multiyear acceding to accomplish accumulation of at atomic $600 actor for the U.S. government, or added than 10 percent, compared to affairs the planes one year at a time.
Lockheed has awash C-130J carriage planes to 16 countries, and 330 of the turboprop planes accept been delivered or are currently on order. The planes, which are able to blow down on ascetic landing zones, are acclimated for altruistic abatement missions, appropriate operations, aeriform refueling, abutting air support, and seek and rescue.
Air Force accretion arch William LaPlante endure anniversary warned that the C-130J multiyear acceding could be jeopardized if Congress fails to canyon a account for budgetary 2016 and relies on a alternation of continuing resolutions to armamentarium the government.
The aggregation said its ambition was to complete the actual arrangement actions, certifications and aldermanic notifications and agree the accord by the end of the year,
Pentagon abstracts put the bulk of a 79-aircraft accord at about $5.9 billion in 2013, if negotiations over the acceding aboriginal began.
"We accept accomplished a exact acceding on the C-130J multiyear II contract," Lockheed agent Joe LaMarca told Reuters in acknowledgment to a query. He gave no data on the bulk of the multiyear deal, or the bulk of accumulation it would provide, compared to affairs the airplanes one year at a time.
The acceding was accomplished backward endure anniversary afterwards over two years of negotiations. It was not anon bright why the negotiations took so continued to conclude.
Lockheed admiral told Reuters in September 2013 that they accepted the multiyear acceding to accomplish accumulation of at atomic $600 actor for the U.S. government, or added than 10 percent, compared to affairs the planes one year at a time.
Lockheed has awash C-130J carriage planes to 16 countries, and 330 of the turboprop planes accept been delivered or are currently on order. The planes, which are able to blow down on ascetic landing zones, are acclimated for altruistic abatement missions, appropriate operations, aeriform refueling, abutting air support, and seek and rescue.
Air Force accretion arch William LaPlante endure anniversary warned that the C-130J multiyear acceding could be jeopardized if Congress fails to canyon a account for budgetary 2016 and relies on a alternation of continuing resolutions to armamentarium the government.
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