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U.S. Navy To Receive Even More Super Hornets and Growlers
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Boeing has made repeated attempts to secure a third multiyear procurement program for the Super Hornet/Growler, and now seems to have achieved its aim. (Photo credit: U.S. Navy)
Boeing has made repeated attempts to secure a third multiyear procurement program for the Super Hornet/Growler, and now seems to have achieved its aim. (Photo credit: U.S. Navy)

The U.S. Department of Defense's undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics on May 14 certified to Congress that the proposed third Super Hornet/Growler multiyear procurement (MYP) met statutory requirements, including substantial savings. With this certification in place, the contract should proceed to cover the purchase of 124 aircraft over Fiscal Year 2010 through 2013. The multiyear procurement ties Boeing into a fixed price, but also locks the government into a firm commitment. Cost savings over a traditional year-by-year procurement are said to be in the region of 10 percent, which the DoD has established as the threshold for approving MYPs over buying annual lots.

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