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Boeing wins Pentagon contract |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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The US Air Force has awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to Boeing worth $750 million (£455 million).
According to the US Department of Defense, the contract will include drawing and technical data maintenance, systems engineering support, technical analyses and government furnished property maintenance.
It will also include detailed design engineering system and subsystem integration, hardware and software support, technical order updates, flight safety analyses and reliability and maintainability analyses.
Ground and flight test support will also be provided, as will engineering feasibility studies, material deficiency report analysis, field problem investigation, and in-flight emergency response.
Boeing already has a B-52 fleet support contract with the US Air Force.
The news of Boeing's contract comes soon after it shipped a GPS IIF satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the US to conduct a series of tests.
The GPS satellite, part of the Air Force's next-generation satellite navigation system, was expected to be used to prepare for an alternative satellites launch before being launched itself.
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