U.S. AIR FORCE
(Defenselink -- 2 July 2004) McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $12,000,000 firm fixed price contract modification. This change implements a contractor-suggested change to the initial concept for basing the C-17’s Automatic Test Equipment that was established in the FY04 C-17 Globe master III Sustainment Partnership’s Letter Contract. This initiative will deploy CATEs and related peripheral equipment to C-17 bases that had previously not been scheduled to receive them. This revised deployment concept will provide for more efficient sustainment support at these bases by reducing the number of spares and repair actions that had been estimated under the original CATE basing concept. The Air Force will be responsible for acquiring the balance of the additional required labor and material. This effort supports foreign military sales to the United Kingdom. Location of performance is McDonnell Douglas, Long Beach, Calif., and Pratt and Whitney, Cheshire, Conn. At this time, $6,000,000 of the funds have been obligated. The Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-C-2004, P00019).