GE in Vandalia lands a $73 million Navy contract

FA/18 Super Hornet. Boeing image

FA/18 Super Hornet. Boeing image

General Electric Aviation Systems in Vandalia has won a nearly $73 million U.S. Navy contract to support the F-18 jet.

The GE plant off Interstate 75 and East National Road has won a $72.5 million modification to a previously-awarded firm-fixed-price contract to procure 140 generator converter units, 140 wiring harnesses and other components in support of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and E/A-18G Growler aircraft electrical systems.

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The work will be performed in Vandalia and is expected to be complete by December 2022.

Fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement U.S. Navy funds in the amount of $72,479,880 will be obligated at time of award, the Department of Defense said.

Angie Howell, a prodcut development lab assembler at GE Aviation in Vandalia, moves a compont used for electric generation aboard an F-18 Super Hornet. STAFF PHOTO BY CHRIS STEWART

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Credit: Chris Stewart

The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md. handled the contracting work.

GE, one of Ohio’s and the Dayton area’s largest employers, has been among the most challenged companies during the global pandemic.

On March 23, GE announced that it is planning to reduce about 10 percent of its total U.S. workforce. The company also froze hiring canceled salaried merit increases, cut non-essential spending and reduced its contingent workforce.

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