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Boeing Wins $319M Contract for Logistics Support from US Navy

  • 12:00 AM, September 26, 2011
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The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $319,905,801 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-fee contract (N00019-09-C-0022) for spares, support equipment and tools, logistics support, trainers, and courseware in support of the low rate initial production, lot two, P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas (35 percent); Hazelwood, Mo. (35 percent); Seattle, Wash. (14 percent); Jacksonville, Fla. (4 percent); Anaheim, Calif. (4 percent); Baltimore, Md. (3 percent); Camden, N.J. (3 percent); and Greenlawn, N.Y. (2 percent). Work is expected to be completed in March 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air System Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
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