Bell-Boeing wins $55 million contract for U.S. Navy's V-22 support

Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $29,387,585 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement to support the Naval Rotary Wing Aircraft Test Squadron by providing on-site flight test management, flight test engineering, design engineering and related efforts to support the conduct of flight and ground testing for the MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md. (70 percent); Philadelphia, Pa. (19 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (11 percent). Work is expected to be completed in December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-07-G-0008). Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $25,862,655 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to exercise an option to a previously awarded delivery order placed against a previously issued basic ordering agreement. This option provides engineering and technical services for the Navy and Air Force in support of the V-22 flight control system and on-aircraft avionics software. This effort supports configuration changes to the software of the V-22 aircraft for avionics and flight controls; flight test planning; coordination of changed avionics and flight control configurations; and upgrade planning of avionics and flight controls, including performance of qualification testing and integration testing on software products. Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pa. (90 percent), and Fort Worth, Texas (10 percent). Work is expected to be completed in December 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $6,079,429 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.