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Navy/USMC

Raytheon and Boeing Win $140 Million In Navy F/A-18 Retrofit Components

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

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Raytheon and Boeing Win $140 Million In Navy F/A-18 Retrofit Components

A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet. (Photo: Boeing)

The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] a combined nearly $140 million in contracts and delivery orders for F/A-18 retrofit components on Monday and Tuesday.Raytheon won a $91 million firm-fixed price contract for retrofit components for the F/A-18 on Tuesday. The supplies and services in their contract includes four Configuration D validation and verification kits and 206 Configuration D retrofit component kits as part of three engineering change proposals.This work is expected to be finished in…

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