The US Department of Defense has given Boeing a whopping $615.8 million contract to install the AN/ALQ-250 Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) into new F-15EX Eagle IIs plus retrofit into F-15E Strike Eagles also to replace the Strike Eagle’s AN/ALQ-135 Tactical Electronic Warfare Suite (TEWS) from the 1980s. The EPAWSS integrates the radar warning receiver and the self-defense jammer and doubles the amount of chaff & flare. Although Boeing is leading the work as the prime manufacturer of the F-15 Eagle family from St. Louis, Missouri, BAE Systems is developing the EPAWSS and doing some of the work from their Nashua, New Hampshire facility.