Security Cooperation News -- 18 March 2003

AIR FORCE

(Defenselink -- March 18, 2003) The McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., Berkeley, Mo., is being awarded a $11,640,000 firm fixed-price contract modification to provide Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) Guided Vehicles for the following Foreign Military Sales countries: Denmark-245 each, UAE-202 each, Oman-84 each, Korea-14 each. The JDAM weapon system provides for the Air Force and the Navy with an improved aerial delivery capability for existing bombs. The JDAM is a strap-on kit with Inertial Navigation System/Global Positioning System capability. The locations of performance are: McDonnell Douglas Corp., Berkeley, Mo. (69%); Honeywell Inc., Military Avionics Division, Minneapolis, Minn. (31%). Total funds have been obligated. Negotiations were completed March 2003. This work will be complete by November 2005. The Air Armament Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (F08635-02-C-0060, P00004).