Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Michael Lewis - BB&T Capital Markets.
Michael Lewis - BB&T Capital Markets
Tim, the DoD a few weeks ago released an option award to you. It was actually for many hundreds of DDL retro. Now I don’t believe that you have released this in a press release. I guess my question with regard to this DDL option, is this what you’re expecting to see the ramp in in the second half off of this most recent option award?
Timothy E. Conver
Yes, Mike. Thanks. I think what you’re referring to was a release that the Army made I think it was a synopsis of their intent to procure Sole Source digital Ravens from AV. And I think there have been a few that have come out of the program office and that most recent one was probably the intent in funding in the overseas contingency operations line that is planned in FY ’10.
Michael Lewis - BB&T Capital Markets
But all we know is that it’s out there and it’s coming.
Stephen C. Wright
Yes. We haven’t actually negotiated that. That’s still ahead of us. But I would say Mike that what we’ve seen publicly released from the Army for Army and Marine Corps procurements in both the supplemental, the OCO funding and the FY ’10 budget is what totals to the $163 million that I referenced in my comments.
Michael Lewis - BB&T Capital Markets
And then just a quick follow up. In the press release you actually discuss that there is ?thousands of UAS in the field.? Could you perhaps quantify the number of Raven A’s that you think the Army’s going to look at to convert with the DDL comps package?
Timothy E. Conver
Well, let me preface that with a couple of comments. One is we have some invisibility into their near term intent with these announcements they’ve made on their plans to contract with us for both new systems and for retrofits. And Steve probably has some specific quantities associated with those. Beyond that, we certainly don’t know for sure, but it’s my expectation that they will intend to end up with a common, digital fleet of their entire installed base. But we’ll have to wait to see how that rolls out in future years to be sure of that.
Stephen C. Wright
For Army, Marines and everyone else we’ve delivered a little over 7,000 new Raven air vehicles to date.
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