$38.4M for USAF C-17 Modifications

Published: Nov 03, 2005
Source: www.defenseindustrydaily.com



The Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH has issued Boeing subsidiary McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, CA received a $22 million time and material contract modification to the C-17 Globemaster III sustainment partnership. A separate $16.4 million contract adds combat lighting to 28 aircraft.

What is the C-17 Globemaster III sustainment partnership, you ask?

As an earlier DID article has noted, it's a long term, performance-based, public-private partnership between Boeing and the Air Force, which places all performance risk on the contractor to sustain the C-17 fleet at agreed-upon and continuously raised benchmarked levels. This effort also supports C-17 foreign military sales to the United Kingdom.continue..