General Electric Awarded Fiscal Year 2007-2008 F414 Egine Production Contract

Released on Wednesday, September 26, 2007

General Electric Co., Aircraft Engines Business Group, Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $339,759,829 modification to definitize a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-06-C-0088) to a firm-fixed-price contract. In addition, this modification provides for the Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Full Rate Production of 84 F-414-GE-400 engines for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G, 84 devices, 10 fan modules, 30 HPT modules and 18 LPT modules. Work will be performed in Lynn, Mass. (46 percent); Hooksett, N.H. (18 percent); Rutland, Vt. (14 percent); Albuquerque, N.M. (9 percent); Madisonville, Ky. (9 percent); and Wilmington, N.C. (.01 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity.