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Air Force Adds Billions to Boeing’s JDAM Contract Ceiling

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, June 17th, 2019

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Air Force Adds Billions to Boeing’s JDAM Contract Ceiling

An F/A-18 dropping a JDAM. Photo: Boeing.

The Air Force awarded Boeing [BA] a contract modification worth up to $6.5 billion for future Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits, spares, repairs and technical services, according to a June 14 contract announcement. The modification extends the original 2014 contract for five more years. It involves foreign military sales to “currently unknown countries,” and brings the ceiling of the previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract up to over $10 billion. Nearly $905 million in fiscal year 2017, 2018 and 2019…

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