USAF exercises KC-135 training option
CAE has been awarded a $33 million contract modification that exercises an FY20 option to extend its US Air Force KC‐135 Stratotanker Aircrew Training System contract.
Work will be performed at various company and air force sites across the US, as well as Kadena Air Base in Japan, Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the UK.
Work is expected to be completed by 30 September 2020, and this modification brings the total cumulative value of the contract to $505.5 million.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center based at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting activity for the award.
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