U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- November 26, 2003) McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $14,415,100 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-02-C-3044) to exercise an option for in-service logistics and engineering support for Navy and foreign military sales F/A-18A/B/C/D aircraft. This contract combines the purchases of the U.S. Navy ($10,403,558; 72.17 percent) and the governments of Canada ($1,216,687; 8.44 percent), Spain ($846,391; 5.87 percent), Australia ($661,243; 4.59 percent), Finland ($564,261; 3.91 percent), Kuwait ($352,663; 2.45 percent), Switzerland ($299,764; 2.08 percent) and Malaysia ($70,533; .49 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. (75 percent), and El Segundo, Calif. (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2004. Contract funds in the amount of $1,105,626 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.