Contract extension keeps Triumph on F-35 blocker doors

Berwyn, Pa.-based Triumph Group Inc. has announced that its Aerospace Structures Fabrication facility located in Hot Springs, Ark., has received a contract extension from Lockheed Martin to continue supplying titanium hot-form-machined exhaust screens for use on the F-35 blocker doors.

The award extends the contract Triumph originally won in 2013 for the design, manufacture, and testing of complex forming in titanium.