WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US defense giant Boeing received a more than $24 million contract from the US Navy to provide additional engineering services and upgrades for the P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, the Department of Defense said in a press release.
"The Boeing Company [of] Seattle, Washington is being awarded [a] $24,642,648… delivery order… in support of the P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft," the release stated on Wednesday.
The order provides for additional engineering services in support of systems engineering technical and critical design reviews for Block 2 upgrades, the Defense Department explained. Work on the contract will take two years and is scheduled to be completed in July 2019, the release said.
