Boeing plans $18.7M in radar work at Mississippi factory

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The Associated Press

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FOREST, Miss. — The U.S. Air Force has given Boeing an $18.7 million change order to an earlier contract to maintain radar systems for the Air Force, the Air National Guard and the Royal Saudi Air Force.

The work is expected be completed by July in Forest, Mississippi, where Raytheon has a military radar factory that employs about 800 people.

The Defense Department announced the contract Wednesday.

Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia, is overseeing the work.