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Lockheed Martin adds $11.8M contract |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
SCBIZ Daily Staff
GREENVILLE -- Defense contractors continue to boost work orders despite the slowing economy, bringing millions of dollars into the state.
Lockheed Martin just received more than $33 million in U.S. Navy work orders for its Greenville facility, and Ladson-based Force Protection Inc. has received multi-million-dollar contracts to build mine-resistant armored vehicles for Canada and the United Kingdom.
The Defense Department announced Nov. 24 that Lockheed received a modification to an existing contract for work on P-3 aircraft. The work will be performed in Greenville and is expected to be completed in June 2010. The value of the modification is $11.8 million.
In addition, Lockheed received a $22.9 million order last week from the Defense Department to produce airframe structures replacements for four P-3C aircraft. That work also will be performed in Greenville and is a modification to an existing contract. Work is expected to be finished in January.
Force Protection, meanwhile, announced last week that it received a $15 million order to deliver more armored vehicles to the United Kingdom and a $49.5 million order from Canada.
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