$82 Million for EA-18G Airborne Electronic Attack Kits

Posted on: Jul. 3rd, 2006 || Source: defenselink.mil | E-mail Article | Print Article

(DoD Contract Announcement) - McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded an $82,360,947 cost-plus-award-fee modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for the first production representative lot of airborne electronic attack (AEA) kits for the EA-18G aircraft.

This modification provides for the procurement of four AEA kits, spares, and support equipment.

Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (42.5 percent);
Bethpage, N.Y. (28.2 percent);
St. Louis, Mo. (18 percent);
Fort Wayne, Ind. (4.8 percent);
Nashua, N.H. (2 percent);
Melbourne, Fla. (1.6 percent);
Wallingford, Conn. (1.6 percent);
Westminster, Colo. (1.3 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2008.

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.
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