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Pentagon Contract Announcement

  • (Source: US Department of Defense)
  • 12:00 AM, January 14, 2009
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Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass., was awarded on Jan. 9, 2009, a $75,509,000 firm fixed price contract for Patriot missile system radar upgrade kits.>> Work will be performed in Andover, Mass., and El Paso, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2013.>> Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on Aug. 26, 2008.>> Aviation and Missile Command Contracting Center, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-09-G-0001).>> -ends->
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