PENTAGON -- The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $22,632,221 firm-fixed-price task order (N0001918F1512) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-16-G-0001) to procure the non-recurring engineering required for the redesign of the Data Bus Interface Unit and the Deployable Flight Incident Recorder of the Deployable Flight Incident Recording Set (DFIRS) in support of F/A-18 A-F and EA-18G aircraft for the Navy and the government of Australia.
The redesigns will address obsolescence issues, as well as provide for additional memory and a 406 MHz beacon capability. The order also includes the development of three DFIRS Automated Test Station testing assets to support redesign and development activity and for use during the production of the redesigned DFIRS system.
Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri (35 percent); El Segundo, California (1 percent); other locations within the U.S. (1 percent); and Ontario, Canada (63 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 2022.
Fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement (Navy); and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $22,632,221 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Navy ($21,267,538; 94 percent); and the government of Australia ($1,364,684; 6 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales program.
The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.