Boeing awarded $65M contract modification for UAS work supporting various oveseas Operations
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $65,000,000 estimated value modification to a previously awarded indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract (N00019-08-D-0013) to exercise an option for persistent unmanned aerial system intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance services in support of Global War on Terror, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom sea-based deployments and land-based detachments.
Work will be performed in Bingen, Wash., (65 percent); and St. Louis, Mo., (35 percent), and is expected to be completed in Nov. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $6,818,825 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
Source US Dept of Defense
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