L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a $58,616,881 estimated value modification to a previously awarded firm fixed priced, cost reimbursable requirements contract (N00019-00-D-0272) to exercise an option to provide for the total aircraft maintenance and logistics life cycle support for 55 Navy and 11 Marine Corps C-12 aircraft.>> Work will be performed at the Naval Air Station (NAS), Corpus Christi, Texas, (38 percent); Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., (8 percent); Naval Air Facility, (NAF) AF Atsugi, Japan, (6 percent); NAS Norfolk, Va., (5 percent); Naval Support Activity, Bahrain, (5 percent); NAF Kadena, Japan, (5 percent); Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, (5 percent); NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (3 percent); MCAS New River, N.C., (3 percent); MCAS Yuma, Ariz., (3 percent); NAS New Orleans, La., (3 percent); NAF Andrews, Md., (3 percent); NAS North Island, Calif., (3 percent); MCAS Beaufort, S.C., (2 percent); NAS Dallas, Texas, (2 percent); NAF Misawa, Japan, (1 percent); NAS Miramar, Calif., (1 percent); MCAS Futenma, Japan, (1 percent); NAS Atlanta, Ga., (1 percent); NAS Willow Grove, Pa., (1 percent); Manassas, Va., (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in Sept. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.>> The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.>> -ends->