Lockheed Martin wins nearly $4 billion of U.S. defense contracts -Pentagon

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WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp is being awarded two U.S. defense contracts worth a total of nearly $4 billion, the Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday.

One contract, worth $3.5 billion, is for Army training aids, devices, simulators and simulations, maintenance, sustainment, operations and support of instrumentation systems and live-fire ranges, the statement said.

The second contract, worth $481 million, provides for the procurement of initial air vehicle spares in support of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft, it said. (Reporting by Eric Beech Editing by Eric Walsh)

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