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Air Force Awards Boeing $3.2 Billion JDAM Contract

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Air Force Awards Boeing $3.2 Billion JDAM Contract
An F/A-18 dropping a JDAM. Photo: Boeing.

The Air Force on Tuesday awarded Boeing [BA] a fixed-price contract worth as much as $3.2 billion for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits, according to a Defense Department statement.The contract is a fixed-price, incentive-firm, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract modification to a previously awarded contract. Boeing will provide JDAM strap-on inertial guidance kits with the capability to receive guidance updates from Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to increase weapon accuracy for conventional inventory bombs.The undefinitized contract action was awarded…

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Air Force Awards Boeing $3.2 Billion JDAM Contract

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The Air Force on Tuesday awarded Boeing [BA] a fixed-price contract worth as much as $3.2 billion for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits, according to a Defense Department statement.

The contract is a fixed-price, incentive-firm, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract modification to a previously awarded contract. Boeing will provide JDAM strap-on inertial guidance kits with the capability to receive guidance updates from Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to increase weapon accuracy for conventional inventory bombs.

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

The undefinitized contract action was awarded on Oct. 30, 2014, at a maximum amount of $1.7 billion. That amount has since increased by $1.5 billion due to warfighter demand and to replenish depleted inventories.

Work is expected to complete by Sept. 29, 2020. This contract involves foreign military sales (FMS). Boeing develops JDAM.

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