The Boeing Company on June 7, 2007 signed a five-year $258.5 million performance-based logistics contract with an option for an additional five years with the U.S. Department of Defense to support AV-8B Harriers operated by the U.S. Marine Corps, Italy and Spain. The Harrier Integrated Supply Support (HISS) program includes asset repair management (spares and consumables), meeting delivery response times, obsolescence management, reliability and maintainability improvements, warehousing, configuration management, technology insertion, transportation and other innovative supply support solutions. The Harrier is a multi-mission, short-takeoff vertical landing tactical strike aircraft. Because of its short-to-vertical takeoff and landing capabilities, it possesses flexibility unmatched by other fixed-wing aircraft.