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Perriwen
2010-10-29, 01:54 PM
Even more bizarre this comes as reports of seeing F-117s, a supposedly retired jet, flying around over the Groom Lake/Nellis area start to surface..

The Contract Text from Defence.Gov (http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4202)

And the oddness heats up...

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/10/screwed-up-contract-award-or-s.html


Universal Propulsion Co., Fairfield, Calif., is being awarded a $16,015,378 firm-fixed-price, definite-delivery/definite-quantity contract for the manufacture of digital recovery sequencer kits, power modules and electronic modules in support of the F-15, F-16 F-17 and F-117 aircraft. Work will be performed in Fairfield, Calif., and work is expected to be completed by July 2011. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This announcement includes foreign military sales to the governments of Taiwan (11 percent); the Netherlands (10 percent); Saudi Arabia (4 percent); Singapore (3 percent); Korea (3 percent); Thailand (2 percent); Norway (2 percent); Egypt (2 percent); Israel (1 percent); Denmark (1 percent); Oman (1 percent); and Pakistan, Jordan, Italy, Poland, Chile and United Arab Emirates (less than one percent). This contract was not competitively awarded. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00104-10-C-K026).

USAF Pilot 07
2010-10-30, 06:43 PM
What's a F17 jet? That alone leads me to believe it's probably botched contract text - or at least reporting from someone who doesn't know much about fighter jets...