22 December 2012

USA: Boeing Contract for RAAF Growler Kits

CGI of RAAF E/A-18G Growler (Click to Enlarge)

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $164,000,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-09-C-0086) to exercise an option for the procurement of 12 Airborne Electronic Attack Group B Kits and four Equivalent Ship-sets of spares for the Royal Australian Air Force.  

This contract involves Foreign Military Sales to the Government of Australia (100 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program.  

Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (41.1 percent); St. Louis, Mo. (36.3 percent); Bethpage,  N.Y. (19 percent); and Fort Wayne, Ind. (3.6 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2015.  

Contract funds in the amount of $164,000,000 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.