USAF and USN Order 600 Laser JDAM Bombs

Released on Friday, May 18, 2007

McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., St Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $28,800,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (LJDAM) Precision Laser Guidance Set (PLGS), quantity of 600 (USAF-400, USN-200). In response to a compelling and urgent operational need, the LJDAM Precision Laser Guidance Set system provides the Air Force and the Navy an improved aerial delivery capability for existing 500-pound bombs to attack moving surface targets. The LJDAM PLGS modifies existing JDAM GBU-38 guidance kits in inventory, using a laser seeker for the purpose of attacking moving surface targets. This effort also involves the management, engineering and logistics support necessary for production qualification and performance verification of the non-development PLGS. At this time, $2,800,000 have been obligated. This work will be complete June 2009. Headquarters Air to Ground Munitions Systems Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (FA8681-07-C-0209).