Last week, the Air Force awarded Boeing [BA] a $266 million sole source contract through 2031 to replace the flight deck of the company's C-17 airlifter. The avionics redesign through the use of commercial systems is to address four, critical Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) in the C-17 cockpit that are obsolete--the Multifunction Display (MFD), Core Integrated Processor/Replacement Core Integrated Processor/Modernized Replacement Core Integrated Processor (CIP/RCIP/MRCIP), the Video Integrated Processor (VIP), and the Standby Engine Display (SED). "The CIP/RCIP/MRCIP and the…