Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $23,500,000.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $23,500,000 (maximum) indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide for the Future Architecture Concept for Information/Integration Technologies Program. This program will develop, demonstrate and

integrate a broad range of technologies that have potential applications within an embedded information architecture. It will span the realm of information architectures including embedded system architectures of manned and unmanned platforms. This will include fighter, transport, space (manned and unmanned), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and the overall command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance infrastructure architecture. At this time, $100,000 of the funds has been obligated. The Air Force can issue delivery orders totaling up to the maximum indicated above; actual requirements may necessitate less than this amount. This work will be complete September 2006. Solicitation was posted via a Program Research and Development Announcement in March 2001, and three proposals were received. Negotiations were completed in September 2001. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33615-01-D-1988).