U.S. Navy Modifies P-8A Contract

The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, is being awarded a $67,812,302 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-04-C-3146) for integration of capabilities and training system upgrades for the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. These include high-altitude, anti-submarine warfare weapon capability, high-altitude, anti-submarine warfare sensor capability and Link-16 network-enabled weapon capability. Work will be performed in Seattle, Washington (64 percent); St. Louis (23 percent); and Patuxent River, Maryland (13 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2017. Fiscal 2015 research, development, testing and evaluation (Navy) and international partner funds in the amount of $26,002,829 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.