Boeing [BA] and General Electric [GE] won separate Navy awards for key parts of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft totaling $446 million on Monday
Boeing won a $227 million ceiling-priced delivery order to procure main and nose landing fear assemblies for the Super Hornet and Growler aircraft. This is under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement.
Work will occur in St. Louis and the order’s performance period lasts through March 2023 with no extension options.
Annual Navy working capital funds of $111 million are obligated at award time and will not expire at the end of this fiscal year. This was a sole sourced requirement.
Separately, General Electric won a $219 million modification to procure 48 F414-GE-400 install engines and engine devices for Lot 23 Super Hornets.
This work will occur in Lynn, Mass. (59 percent), Hooksett, N.H. (18 percent), Rutland, Vt. (12 percent), and Madisonville, Ky. (11 percent), and is expected to be finished by August 2021.
The full $219 million award was obligated at award time with none set to expire at the end of this fiscal year.