June 15 (UPI) -- Boeing has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense for system configuration sets and services to support upgrades to several F/A-18 variants for the U.S. Navy and foreign customers.
The contract, from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division and valued at more than $1.5 billion, is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for life cycle upgrades to the F/A-18A/B, C/D, E/F and EA-18G aircraft of the Navy and foreign military sales customers.