Boeing's $131 Billion F-15 Eagle Crest Contract Covers 1,000 Eagles in Seven Air Forces
The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $131.2 billion ceiling IDIQ contract on 24 August 2026 for F-15 production, upgrades and sustainment through 2037, with foreign military sales to Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Poland.
The US Air Force awarded Boeing a sole-source contract with a ceiling of $131.23 billion on 24 August 2026 for the F-15 Eagle weapon system, under a new programme name, F-15 Eagle Crest. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle covers aircraft production, systems integration, modernisation, upgrades, retrofits and sustainment for the Air Force, the Air National Guard and other Department of War customers, as well as the establishment of organic depot maintenance capability.
The headline figure is a ceiling, not an order. At award, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base obligated $343,740 in fiscal 2026 research and development funds. Task orders can be placed until 24 August 2031, extendable to 2036, and work in St. Louis, Missouri, is expected to run to August 2037. The arrangement replaces a succession of separate F-15 production, upgrade and support contracts with a single vehicle from which individual orders will be drawn as requirements emerge.
The contract explicitly includes foreign military sales to Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Poland. Five of the seven are established Eagle operators. GlobalMilitary.net inventory data lists 342 F-15s with the US Air Force, including the first eight F-15EX Eagle II, 199 F-15J and F-15DJ with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, 232 F-15C, D, S and SA with the Royal Saudi Air Force, 87 with the Israeli Air Force, 59 F-15K with the Republic of Korea Air Force and 40 F-15SG with the Republic of Singapore Air Force. With Qatar's 46 F-15QA, which are not named in the award, the worldwide active fleet stands at just over 1,000 aircraft.
The other two names point to the production side of the contract. Indonesia has 24 F-15IDN on order but has yet to receive any, and Poland operates no F-15 at all; its inclusion, as Air Data News observes, signals a potential new customer rather than a current fleet. The order book already carries 96 F-15EX for the US Air Force, 50 F-15IA for Israel and the Indonesian batch, and Japan's F-15J Super Interceptor upgrade is the largest retrofit programme outside the United States.
The award lands a year after the type marked fifty years of US Air Force service, and confirms that the Eagle line in St. Louis is planned to stay open well into the 2030s alongside the F-47 and the Navy's F/A-XX. The first task orders under Eagle Crest, and any new export deal drawn from it, will show how much of the $131 billion ceiling is actually committed.
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