U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 30 November 2004) McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded an estimated value $13,279,193 cost plus fixed fee contract to provide in-service logistics and engineering (ILSE) support services for the F/A 18 Weapon Systems for the U.S. Navy ($9,318,134; 70 percent) and the Governments of Canada ($1,201,376; 9.3 percent), Spain ($835,740; 6.3 percent), Australia ($652,922; 4.9 percent), Finland ($557,160; 4.2 percent), Kuwait ($348,225; 2.6 percent), Switzerland ($295,991; 2.2 percent), and Malaysia ($69,645; .5 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 2005. Contract funds in the amount of $1,059,575 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-05-C-0003).