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Old 18th Nov 2020, 13:47
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SLXOwft
 
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The C-32s are maintained under a contract awarded for C-32 and C-40 support in 2016 which lasts until 30JUN2023.

Boeing Aerospace Operations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded a $319,007,670 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for C-32/C-40 contractor logistics support. Contractor will provide organizational and depot-level maintenance, data, contractor operated and maintained base supply, and modification design and installation support. The contractor will provide all support required to fulfill this requirement, including but not limited, to labor, materials, tools, equipment, parts and transportation. This effort includes additional support as over and above tasks, field team support (worldwide), deployments, aircraft crash investigations and damage repair. Work will be performed at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland; Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; Ramstein Air Base, Germany; and Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is expected to be complete by June 30, 2023. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with two offers received. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $242,392 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity (FA8106-16-D-0004).
Source: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Con...rticle/691728/
Additionally there have been contracts over the last few years to upgrade the interiors of individual aircraft at $16 million to $18 million a time.

The four C-32As are all 22+ years old. The 757 production line shut in 2004. As of October this year 569 757-200s are "still in service" however a significant number of these are "parked" or in storage.

The contract was awarded for the C-32 in August 1996. By using commercial, off-the-shelf acquisition practices, a new record was set from contract award to aircraft delivery – less than two years. The C-32 is the first military aircraft ever to be acquired in this manner. The 89th AW acquired the first of four aircraft in June 1998.
Source: www.af.mil
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