$275M Modification Adds 80 Targeting Pods for Navy F-18s

ATFLIR Targeting Pod

Raytheon Co. of El Segundo, CA received a $275 million not-to-exceed modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-03-C-0364) for the procurement of 80 Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) full rate production (FRP) III units for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Navy Reserve’s F/A-18 fleet. This modification also includes spares and associated engineering. Work will be performed in McKinney, TX (79%) and El Segundo, CA (21%), and is expected to be completed in March 2008. The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD issued the modification.