Boeing Awarded $135M for EA-18G Growler AEA Kits & Test Equipment

Posted on: Sep. 3rd, 2007 || Source: DoD | E-mail Article | Print Article

McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $122,319,350 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-07-C-0035) for eight EA-18G Low-Rate Initial Production I (LRIP I) Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Kits and associated non-recurring engineering. In addition, this modification includes an undefinitized contract action for one FY07 supplemental EA-18G LRIP I AEA Kit.

Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (51.2 percent);
St. Louis, Mo. (11.1 percent);
Bethpage, N.Y. (10.2 percent);
Melbourne, Fla. (8.5 percent);
Fort Wayne, Ind. (8.5 percent);
Thousand Oaks, Calif. (4.4 percent);
Wallingford, Conn. (2.6 percent);
Nashua, N.H. (2.6 percent);
and Westminster, Colo. (0.9 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2009. 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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McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $12,956,960 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-04-C-0005) for the procurement of additional factory test equipment in support of the EA-18G aircraft.

Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (78.3 percent);
St. Louis, Mo. (11.6 percent)
and Bethpage, N.Y. (10.1 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2009. 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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FILE PHOTO - An EA-18G aircraft is flown during test and evaluation @ PAX

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