$7.4M to Redesign Circuits in APG-79 Radar
AN/APG-79 AESA Radar
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Boeing subsidiary McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis, MO received a $7.4 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0014) for the redesign of 5 monolithic microwave integrated circuits used in the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet Block II’s AN/APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar.
Work will be performed in El Segundo, CA (95%) and St. Louis, MO (5%), and is expected to be complete in December 2008. Contract funds in the amount of $6 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD issued the contract.
