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Air Force

Boeing To Develop Near Term A-10 Avionics Modernization Fix

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

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Boeing [BA] yesterday said the Air Force awarded it a one-year, $2.9 million contract to develop and validate a modification of the A-10 aircraft's Digital Video Audio Data Recorder (DVADR). The modification would provide a near-term solution to supportability issues with a major subcomponent in the DVADR system. The contract is a task order under the umbrella of the A-10 Thunderbolt Life-Cycle Program Support (TLPS) contract that is administered by the Air Force A-10 System Program Office. The contract announced…

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