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Pakistan Buys 50 Harpoon Missiles
Boeing (St. Louis, MO) is being awarded a $62.5-million contract for 50 Harpoon All-Up-Round (AUR) Missiles that consist of 40 Tactical Block II Airlaunch AUR missiles and 10 Tactical Block II Grade B AUR missiles for the government of Pakistan.The contract also includes 20 MK607 Airlaunch AUR containers and 10 MK631 Canister AUR containers for Pakistan; three exercise sections for the governments of Australia and Japan (two and one, respectively); and three MK592 exercise section shipping containers for Australia and Japan (again, two and one, respectively). This contract combines purchases for the governments of Pakistan ($61.7 million), Japan ($265,384), and Australia ($530,766) under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work is expected to be completed in June 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command (Patuxent River, MD) is the contracting activity Posted by: john 2005-11-06 |
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