U.S. AIR FORCE
(Defenselink -- July 30, 2003) The Boeing Co., St Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $24,443,000 firm fixed price contract. This is a Low Rate Initial Production 4 (LRIP 4) buy from Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems for 100 Electronic Units-21 Configuration; Display Units; Cockpit Units, and Helmet/With Upper Helmet Vehicle Interface for the F-15 (12 Units), F-16 (66 Units) and F/A-18 (22 Units), quantity one (1) Mapped for the F/A-18 Royal Australian Air Force (1 Unit) plus platform peculiar Engineering Support; Common Engineering Support; and Proposal Preparation. This effort supports foreign military sales for the Royal Australian Air Force. At this time $6,700,000 of the funds has been obligated. This work will be completed July 2005. Solicitations began in June 2002 and negotiations were completed in July 2003. The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-01-D-0026, Delivery Order 0018).