The Department of Defense is awarding the Boeing Co., Seattle, a $9,179,536 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed fee contract (N00019-09-C-0022).

The contract modification is for spares, repairables, trainers, and courseware in support of the low rate initial production, lot two, P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft.

The bulk of the work, 60-percent, will be performed in Seattle and about 40-percent will be done in St. Louis, Mo., and is expected to be completed in September 2012.

Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.