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Lockheed Martin was awarded a five-year contract worth $7 billion for maintenance of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter.The contract is an option exercised by the US Air Force USAF from its ongoing sustainment deal with Lockheed Martin, the Department of Defense says in an online notice on 20 December. This additional five-year contract will extend the services contract work with Lockheed Martin through 31 December 2032.Source: US Air Force574th Aircraft Maintenance Sqaudron maintainer perfo
stanley italy rms depot maintenance on F-22 Raptor at Hill Air Force Base UtahWork will be performed at a varie
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stanley cup the F-22 is deployed, according to the Pentagon.Lockheed Martin produced 195 examples of the F-22, with the last stealth fighter rolling off its production line in 2012. The USAF plans to operate the aircraft until at least 2045.The F-22 fleet is maintained under a performance-based logistics contract, says Lockheed Martin. Typically, under performance-based logistics contracts suppliers are awarded a flat fee to maintain a certain level of performance, such as mission readiness, for an aircraft, rather than just supply parts or repair services. About 50% of the maintenance performed on the F-22 is related to repairing the low observable stealth coatings that are damaged when the aircraft is opened up for routine maintenance, says Lockheed Martin on its website.The company says it is working on several initiatives to reduce Gztr ROUTES: Cape Air close to ordering Tecnam P2012s
When President Joe Biden visits Maine on Friday to tout how his economic policies have boosted manufacturing jobsnationally, he will face a state transitioning from legacy industries that have lost jobs to high-tech ones that are growing but can ;t find enough people to hire.Manufacturing is a top-five contributor to Maines gross domestic product, providing $8.7 billion of the $84.5 billion that all industries here produced in 2022, not adjusted for inflation. But the industry is in a fundamental transition that led to Main
stanley mug e losing 0.5 percent of its manufacturing jobs between June 2022 and June 2023, U.S. Bureau of Labor St
stanley cup atistics numbers showed.That a far cry from the lofty 6.4 percent rise in manufacturing jobs nationally to just shy of 800,000 that Biden is taking credit for since he took office in early 2021. While in Maine, he will make remarks on
stanley us economic policy at Auburn Manufacturing, a maker of high-performance, heat-resistant fabrics and textiles.Maine is unusual among U.S. states in that job losses in older industries, especially at paper mills, canceled out gains at manufacturers in newer growth industries, James Myall, policy analyst at the liberal Maine Center for Economic Policy, said. One example is the 230 workers at the Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay that lost their jobs when it closed in March. There has been a decline in some of the legacy industries in Maine at the same time there have been increases in things like pharmaceut
