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(Defenselink -- January 24, 2003) McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis is being awarded a $16,453,911 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-01-C-0040) for the procurement of Harpoon grade B canisters for the government of Australian, which includes 32 canister assemblies, 64 booster sections and containers, 49 capsule canister launch kits, 28 canister all-up-round missile containers, 1 canister test set and associated hardware and services under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Elkton, Md. (31.79 percent); Burnley Lancashire, United Kingdom (24.94 percent); Kirkwood, Mo. (17 percent); St. Charles, Mo. (5.72 percent); Huntsville, Ala. (3.99 percent); Valencia, Calif. (3. 36 percent); Glenn Riddle, Pa. (2.88 percent); Galena, Kan. (2.50 percent); Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (2.19 percent); Tulsa, Okla. (1.84 percent); Grove, Okla. (.93 percent); Manchester, Mo. (.88 percent); Orangeburg, N.Y. (.69 percent); Fairfield, Calif. (.66 percent); and Phoenix (.63 percent), and is to be completed inJuly 2005. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.