The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] a combined nearly $140 million in contracts and delivery orders for F/A-18 retrofit components on Monday and Tuesday.
Raytheon won a $91 million firm-fixed price contract for retrofit components for the F/A-18 on Tuesday. The supplies and services in their contract includes four Configuration D validation and verification kits and 206 Configuration D retrofit component kits as part of three engineering change proposals.
This work is expected to be finished in Oct. 2019.
Separately, on Monday the Navy awarded Boeing a $49 million delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement that provides for 54 F/A-18 retrofit kits for the Navy and Australia. Forty-eight kits are for the Navy and six for Australia.
The Boeing kits are in support of the “Trailing Edge Flap Retrofit Redesign” engineering change proposal. The work is expected to be finished by Feb. 2020.