Raytheon Awarded ATFLIR Lot 5 Production Contract

Released on Friday, December 15, 2006

Raytheon Co., El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $156,306,500 cost-plus-fix-fee modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-06-C-0310) for the procurement of 50 Full Rate Production Lot 5 Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pods for the F/A-18C/D and F/A-18E/F aircraft. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas (76 percent) and El Segundo, Calif. (24 percent) and is expected to be completed in November 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.