DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. DoD Awarded Contract To Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., For The P-8A Covering Cost Various Factors

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: U.S. DoD Awarded Contract To Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash.,  For  The P-8A Covering Cost Various Factors

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 15, 2013: The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $128,393,761 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-04-C-3146) for engineering labor to perform extended lifetime fatigue testing, teardown, and post-teardown analysis of the P-8A airframe under the P-8A System Development and Demonstration Program.  

The engineering tasks and analyses are necessary to authorize P-8A operations for up to 150 percent of the specified service life of the airframe, dependent upon the results of the extended lifetime testing.  

Work will be performed in Seattle, Wash. (95 percent), and St. Louis, Mo. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018.  Fiscal 2013 Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation, Navy contract funds in the amount of $128,393,761 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River Md., is the contracting activity.

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