Lockheed Martin Awarded $20.2 Million F-35 Spares Deal for Netherlands Fleet
The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $20.2 million modification to procure afloat and deployment spares packages supporting Dutch F-35 production aircraft, with work in Fort Worth, Texas, running through July 2033.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Lockheed Martin Corp., the largest U.S. defense contractor by sales, received a $20.2 million contract modification to supply F-35 spare parts for the Netherlands, the Navy said on August 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET as announced on war.gov.
The not-to-exceed award modifies an undefinitized firm-fixed-price order under a previously issued basic ordering agreement. It adds scope to procure afloat spares packages and deployment spares packages for air vehicle initial spares. The parts support F-35 production aircraft built for the government of the Netherlands, according to war.gov. Cooperative program partner funds of $20.2 million cover the award.
Work will take place in Fort Worth, Texas, where the F-35 line is based, and finishes in July 2033. The Naval Air Systems Command, based in Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity, according to war.gov. The award was not competed.
The modification keeps Dutch fighter squadrons stocked with the parts needed to sustain sorties from bases and, where required, from ships at sea. Lockheed Martin gains a sustainment revenue stream that extends nearly seven years. The Netherlands, a founding partner in the F-35 program, secures logistics support that lowers the risk of grounded aircraft.
The award marks the 50th contract for Lockheed Martin in 2026, lifting the company’s total contract value for the year to $89.9 billion, according to war.gov. It is the 75th Department of Defense contract awarded in Texas during 2026. The figure sits far below the company’s record single award of $53.9 billion. The deal was one of 15 Department of Defense contracts issued nationwide that day.
Measured against the company’s yearly haul, a $20.2 million spares order is a modest line item, roughly the scale of a small municipal contract next to a national budget. For the Dutch military, the package carries outsized weight because spares availability determines how many jets can fly on a given day.
Spares procurement for allied F-35 fleets has happened before. The Netherlands ordered its first F-35A aircraft in 2013 and has folded repeated sustainment and spares buys into the multinational program since, drawing on shared partner funding rather than sole U.S. financing.
The Naval Air Systems Command will oversee delivery and remaining definitization of the order. A date for the next contract decision on this Dutch spares effort has not been announced.
Multinational fighter programs have tied allied logistics together as happened before. The Netherlands joined the F-16 Multinational Fighter Program in 1975 alongside Belgium, Denmark and Norway, buying 116 aircraft in a deal then called the arms sale of the century according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. Those partners shared production and sustainment for decades, and the arrangement bound Dutch air power to U.S. supply chains long after the initial jets rolled out, a dependence the F-35 program now carries forward.
This contract represents the 50th contract awarded to Lockheed Martin Corp., in 2026, bringing the company’s total contract value for the year to $89,907,773,737. It is also the 75th Department of Defense contract awarded in Texas during 2026. While this is not the largest contract ever awarded to Lockheed Martin Corp., whose record stands at $53,859,843,289, it is notable within the Navy portfolio. Specifically, it falls between the 2026 Navy portfolio’s year-to-date minimum of $9,046,496 and maximum of $8,000,000,000. Overall, this award was announced among 15 Department of Defense contracts issued nationwide on August 3, 2026.
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