Most contract announcements get read for the dollar figure, which is usually the least informative number in the notice. A ceiling value covers work that may never be ordered. An indefinite-delivery contract can sit at its minimum for years while the press release stays online claiming the maximum.
This section takes awards apart: base quantity against options, obligated funds against ceiling, delivery dates, and who holds the subcontracts. Foreign military sales cases, export approvals, ordering agreements and sustainment deals get the same treatment. Quantity first, money second.
The sources are the notices themselves, DSCA case announcements, and the budget lines the money comes from. Where an award turns out to be the third option exercised on a contract signed in 2021, that is what the piece says.
L-3 Communications, Platform Integration Division, Waco, Texas, received a not-to-exceed $41.5 million undefinitized contract action to supply four intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, spares, and crew training to support counter-terrorism operations in Yemen. The contract number is FA8620-14-C-3020. Big Safari—officially the
Whether an award can actually be delivered is a question for Defense Infrastructure & Manufacturing. Industrial Partnerships covers the standing relationships behind the transactions here: joint ventures, licensed production, offset obligations that run a decade or more. Defense Industry is the parent section for both.
