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$6.9M for Kuwaiti F-18 Electronics

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Kuwaiti F/A-18C
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Boeing subsidiary McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis, MO received a $6.9 million firm-fixed-priced order against a previously awarded Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-03-G-0009) for the procurement of 43 Combined Interrogator Transponders and 43 KIV-6 Cryptographic Computers for the Kuwaiti Air Force for F/A-18 aircraft under the Foreign Military Sales Program.

Work will be performed in Greenlawn, NY (95%) and St. Louis, MO (5%), and is expected to be complete in April 2008. The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD issued the contract.