$54 million added to Boeing's P-8 Posedion contract, with some work done in Jacksonville

The Boeing Co. will be performing an additional $8.7 million worth of work on the P-8A Posedion in Jacksonville as part of two contract modifications announced Monday.

The first modification, which adds $43.3 million to a contract to provide logistics and contractor support, will be done mainly in Seattle, although 12 percent of the job will be done in Jacksonville.

That modification runs through April 2017 and was contracted for by the The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland.

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