U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 26 May 2004) McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo. is being awarded a $7,548,752 firm-fixed-priced delivery order against a previously awarded Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-03-G-0004) for the non-recurring efforts associated with the engineering change proposal that includes the AN/ALE-47 countermeasures dispensing system, joint helmet mounted cueing system, multifunctional information distribution system, tactical aircraft moving map capability with the advanced memory unit, and improved color display suite for the phase two modernization of the Marine Corps and the Canadian government F/A-18A/B aircraft. This delivery order combines the purchases of the U.S. Marine Corps ($3,479,833; 46 percent) and the government of Canada ($4,068,919; 54 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. and is expected to be completed in February 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.