The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced Tuesday, March 18, the signing of a contract with Boeing Company's (BA) McDonnell Doulgas unit. The unit is being awarded a $11.6 million firm fixed-price contract modification to provide Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) Guided Vehicles for the following Foreign Military Sales countries: Denmark-245 each, UAE-202 each, Oman-84 each, Korea-14 each.
The JDAM weapon system provides for the Air Force and the Navy with an improved aerial delivery capability for existing bombs. The JDAM is a strap-on kit with Inertial Navigation System/Global Positioning System capability. Negotiations were completed March 2003. This work will be complete by November 2005. — (menareport.com)
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