WASHINGTON, June 15: US aerospace giant Boeing won an additional $6.5 billion to deliver precision-guided bomb tail kits and associated parts and services, the Defence Department said in a press release.
“Boeing Defence Space and Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a contract for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits, spares, repairs and technical services,” the release said on Friday. “This modification?increases the contract ceiling by $6,534,283,787.”
The contract, the release added, involves foreign military sales to “currently unknown countries” and is expected to be completed by 2025.
The JDAM is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs into all-weather precision-guided munitions, according to Boeing.
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