Boeing’s Stewardship: $11.4M Contract Advances F/A-18 Automated Maintenance Environment

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded an $11,407,360 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001924F0083) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001921G0006). This order provides for integrated product support (IPS) for all Navy, Marine Corps, and the governments of Spain, Canada, Switzerland, Malaysia, Kuwait, Australia, and Finland’s F/A-18A-F and Electronic Attack EA-18G aircraft. The IPS provides for the sustainment of the F/A-18 Automated Maintenance Environment system, to include software upgrades and training to support fleet maintenance activities; interactive electronic technical manuals updates and releases to the fleet; logistics support to provide on-site assistance to operators and organizational and intermediate level maintainers; establishing and running Hornet Support Centers required to support Navy and Marine Corps F/A-18 and Navy EA-18G aircraft; failure reporting and corrective action system maintenance; sustaining engineering to include engineering investigations, system safety analysis, structural appraisal of fatigue effects support, technical integration support, trade studies, and aerodynamic simulation/modeling support; maintenance planning to include logistics product data support; configuration management support; and peculiar support equipment (PSE) management to include analysis of aircraft changes for PSE impact. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be completed in March 2024. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $6,176,271; fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,117,177; and Foreign Military Sales customer funds in the amount of $1,113,912, will be obligated at the time of award, $4,117,177 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.