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Multiyear Acquisition For C-130J
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 Lockheed Martin received a $4 billion US Air Force contract in mid-March for the multiyear acquisition of sixty C-130J aircraft for the US Air Force and Marine Corps. The six-year program runs from FY’03 through FY’08. Acquiring aircraft in larger long-term quantities allows the Air Force to better plan the placement of those aircraft in airlift wings around the country and allows the Marine Corps to continue its tanker modernization efforts at a steady rate. The Air Force will receive forty CC-130Js, the stretched fuselage version of the aircraft, and the Marines will receive twenty KC-130J tankers. Several days later, Lockheed Martin received a contract for an additional FY’03 CC-130J. This CC-130J, which will be delivered in 2005, will replace a C-130J that will be transferred from the 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Mississippi, to the EC-130J Commando Solo program. This latest order brings the number of C-130Js and CC-130Js ordered by the Air Force to seventy-seven. |
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