GE Wins $120M for Australian F-18E/F Engines

General Electric Co., Aircraft Engines Business Group, Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $120,188,430 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-06-C-0088) for the Fiscal Year 2008 Full Rate Production of 30 F/A-18E/F, F414 GE-400 Engines, 24 device kits; and 19 various modules in support of the Royal Australian Air Force under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Lynn, Mass., (50 percent); Madisonville, Ky., (22 percent); Hooksett, N.H., (13 percent); Albuquerque, N.M., (6 percent); Rutland, Vt., (5 percent); Dayton, Ohio, (2 percent); Evandale, Ohio, (1 percent); and Bromont, Canada, (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in Jan. 2010. 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.