Raytheon gains more AMRAAM work for FMS customers
Raytheon is working on two new AIM-120 AMRAAM-related contracts from the USAF Life Cycle Management Center with a combined value of more than $60 million, the DoD announced on 13 November.
Under a $51.15 million contract modification, for completion by January 2025, Raytheon is providing test equipment and production capacity for 11 FMS customers: Australia, Denmark, Japan, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Slovakia, Spain and the UK.
Raytheon is also producing more AMRAAM baseline rocket motors for Chile and Norway by mid-May 2023, under a separate $9.7 million FMS contract modification.
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