By AARON MEHTA
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to begin work on a final assembly and check out (FACO) facility for Japanese F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
The contract was announced by Steve O’Bryan, Lockheed’s vice president in charge of the F-35 program, at this week’s Paris Air Show.
While declining to give contract figures for the deal, Eric Schnaible, Lockheed’s spokesman for Japanese F-35 issues, said Lockheed hopes to replace the contract, which runs through the end of 2013, with a five-year deal sometime by mid-October.
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