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Boeing Sees New AGS Fleet Replacing JSTARS For $5.5 Billion

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Monday, February 7th, 2011

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By Marina Malenic SEATTLE--Boeing [BA] is pitching the Air Force a new version of the Navy's P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane to take the place of the aging E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS). Jim Eisenhart, Boeing's senior business development manager for airborne warning systems, said last month that a new fleet of 17 weaponized, 737-based aerial ground surveillance (AGS) planes with a next-generation radar would cost the Pentagon $5.5 billion. Eisenhart noted that it would cost approximately as…

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