MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: Defense Dept. Contracts for Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013

            Rolls Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., (FA8504-07-D-0001-0501-09) is being awarded a $6,659,487 contract modification for power by the hour support for the India Air Force C-130J aircraft.  The location of the performance is Hindan Air Station, New Delhi, India.  Work is expected to be completed by Jan. 30, 2013. Contract involves Foreign Military Sales.  The contracting activity is AFLCMC/WLKCB, Robins Air Force Base, Ga.

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

            Lockheed Martin Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $9,477,613 modification to cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-13-C-0001).  Under the Phase 3, Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) Program.  Lockheed Martin will conduct a full scale flight test of an active flow control turret mounted on a business class sized jet to validate, in-flight, the turret requirements, design and predicted performance for the preliminary design completed in Phase 2 (HR0011-08-C-0090).  Representative optical paths, a scaled turret (appropriate in size for the aircraft) and flow control actuator system will be designed, wind-tunnel tested and mounted to the test aircraft to be supplied as government-furnished equipment.  Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif., (39 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (29 percent); and Orlando, Fla., (32 percent).  The work is expected to be completed by Sept. 15, 2015.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.