Boeing awarded US DoD contract
Boeing was awarded on April 8 a $12,355,455 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-08-C-0050) for additional Mid-Wave Infrared Unmanned Aerial Systems, intelligence reconnaissance surveillance services in for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force combat missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Work will be performed in Bingen, Wash. (65 percent), and St. Louis, Mo. (35 percent), and is expected to be completed in May 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity.
Source: US DoD
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