RAYTHEON WILL PROVIDE SERVICE FOR SOME OF TAIWAN'S MISSILES
ROC Central News Agency
2005-10-04 16:03:58
Washington, Oct. 3 (CNA) Raytheon Co. will provide full service support for the standard missile 1 (SM-1) program for U.S. allies, which will include Taiwan, the U.S. Department of Defense said Monday.
SM-1 is an anti-air weapon. Taiwan's Chengkung class frigates -- a modified version of U.S. Perry class frigates -- are equipped with the weapon.
The Pentagon said that the Arizona-based company has been awarded a US$36,862,686 firm-fixed-price modification under a previously awarded contract to exercise an option to provide full service support requirements in support of the SM-1 program, among them, Taiwan will account for 44 percent, or around US$16.22 million of the amount.
The modification also supports Egypt, Turkey, Chile, Italy, Spain, France, Bahrain, the Netherlands and Poland under the Foreign Military Sales Program.
Modification work will be performed in Sacramento, California;
Tucson, Arizona; as well as Camden, Arkansas and is expected to be
completed by June 2008.
(By Oliver Lin and Lilian Wu)
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