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![]() by Stephen Feller Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018
Boeing has received an order to upgrade existing test stations for servocylinders and electro-hydraulic valves on the F/A-18 A-F and EA-18G aircraft. The $34 million order, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is a firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order under a previous contract for Boeing to maintain the test stations. Specifically, Boeing will obtain "hardware, retrofit kits and upgrades to replace obsolete components and software" in servocylinder test stations and electro-hydraulic valve test stations for all variants of the aircraft. Work on the contract will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., Chatsworth, Calif., and Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., and is expected to be finished by May 2022. Fiscal 2018 Navy aircraft procurement funds for the full value of the contract have been obligated with the contract award, with none of the funds expiring at the end of the current fiscal year.
![]() ![]() Boeing awarded $9.2B contract for Air Force T-X trainer aircraft Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 Boeing has won the bidding contest for the Air Force's T-X Advanced Pilot Training program, with the service awarding it a $9.2 billion contract to provide up to 475 aircraft over the next two decades. The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, includes an $813 million initial order under the program, which has Boeing providing engineering and manufacturing development of the APT aircraft and ground-based training systems. The Boeing T-X, designed and developed with S ... read more
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