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Oct. 17, 2017 / 9:23 AM

Boeing receives $240M for Saudi AWACS system

The Department of Defense on Monday announced a new contract deal between Boeing and the Royal Saudi Air Force for an airborne warning and control system.

Overall view of a 552nd Air Control Wing E-3C Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) aircraft shown over the central United States as it approaches a KC-135R Stratotanker to refuel. The AWACS aircraft has a large rotating radar mounted above the aircrafts' fuselage and large sensors mounted along the sides of the forward fuselage and below the nose. The E-3C is based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Photo By Greg L. Davis, Aviation Photojournalist.

Overall view of a 552nd Air Control Wing E-3C Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) aircraft shown over the central United States as it approaches a KC-135R Stratotanker to refuel. The AWACS aircraft has a large rotating radar mounted above the aircrafts' fuselage and large sensors mounted along the sides of the forward fuselage and below the nose. The E-3C is based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Photo By Greg L. Davis, Aviation Photojournalist.

Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense on Monday announced a new contract deal between The Boeing Co. and the Royal Saudi Air Force for an airborne warning and control system, or AWACS.

The award is said to be worth over $240 million dollars under a fixed-price-incentive firm contract as Boeing is to provide AWACS mission computing, navigation and communication upgrades and enhanced target acquisition systems to rapidly distinguish between friend or foe.

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The AWACS upgrades fall under phase one of the AWACS modernization program for the Royal Saudi Air Force.

Work on the new AWACS system will be performed in Oklahoma City, Okla., and is expected to be completed by February 2019.

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