by\u00a0Candace Jarrett<\/a>, Hazelwood Patch The\u00a0Department of Defense has awarded The Boeing Co.\u00a0a $16.5 million contract to repair AV-8 Harrier aircraft parts for the\u00a0U.S. Marine Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n The work will be performed in St. Louis and is expected to start Oct. 10 and last until Sept. 30, 2015, according to\u00a0Stephanie Bass, communications specialist at Boeing.<\/p>\n No new jobs will be created for the contract, rather about 60 workers at the Hazelwood defense facility\u00a0are part of the Harrier team.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Department of Defense issued 18 contracts on Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0worth $870 million. Boeing won a significant stake with\u00a017 percent of the contracts.<\/p>\n This comes just after\u00a0Boeing confirmed\u00a0<\/a>it would lay off 300 workers in St. Louis<\/a>\u00a0starting in early 2014<\/a>, as part of its decision to end production of its C-17 military cargo planes.\u00a0See:\u00a0<\/strong>Boeing Likely to Lay Off 300 at Hazelwood Defense Facility<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Defense awarded 18 contracts Wednesday for $870 million. Boeing won 17 percent of those contracts. by\u00a0Candace Jarrett, Hazelwood Patch click here for original article The\u00a0Department of Defense has awarded The Boeing Co.\u00a0a $16.5 million contract to repair AV-8 Harrier aircraft parts for the\u00a0U.S. Marine Corps. The work will be performed in St. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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