Contract: Boeing, $1.5B

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is awarded a $1,504,995,240 fixed-price-incentive-firm contract that provides for the production and delivery of 22 F/A-18E and six F/A-18F Super Hornets in support of the government of Kuwait. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif. (41.4 percent); Hazelwood, Mo. (28.2 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (4.7 percent); Santa Clarita, Calif. (4 percent); Bloomington, Minn. (3.3 percent); Greenlawn, N.Y. (2.8 percent); Endicott, N.Y. (2.3 percent); Santa Ana, Calif. (1.9 percent); Clearwater, Fla. (1.5 percent); Clifton, N.J. (1.3 percent); Mesa, Ariz. (1.3 percent); Torrance, Calif. (1.2 percent); Ontario, Canada (1 percent); Vandalia, Ohio (0.9 percent); Kalamazoo, Mich. (0.8 percent); Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (0.8 percent); East Aurora, N.Y. (0.7 percent); and various locations outside the continental U.S. (2.1 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2021. Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $1,504,995,240 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-18-C-1060). (Source: DoD, 06/27/18)