This federal contract award is for KC-135 engineering services provided by Boeing Aerospace Operations, Inc. (BAO), a division of The Boeing Company. The $414,728.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command on September 4, 2015, with a performance period ending on September 6, 2016. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.
BAO is a major aerospace and defense services contractor that has secured numerous prime and subcontract awards from various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of the Army. In this case, BAO is providing engineering support services for the KC-135 aircraft, which is the Air Force's primary strategic aerial refueling tanker. The contract includes a subcontract to Arconic Inc.'s Arconic Forgings And Extrusions Lafayette Division for the supply of common aerospace commodities such as tubes and actuators.