McDonnell Douglas Receives More Funding for Apache Block III Upgrades

Posted on: Jul. 20th, 2006 || Source: defenselink.mil | E-mail Article | Print Article

McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on July 14, 2006, a $41,000,000 increment as part of $613,000,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the system demonstration and development phase I for the Apache AH-64D block III configuration.

Work will be performed in Mesa, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This was a sole-source contract initiated on May 17, 2005.
The Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-05-C-0001).
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