Bell-Boeing Awarded $200 Million for Production of Three MV-22 Osprey's

Posted on: Aug. 4th, 2006 || Source: defenselink.mil | E-mail Article | Print Article

Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $200,100,000 undefinitized contract action to begin fabrication and delivery of three MV-22 tiltrotor production aircraft.

Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (35 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (35 percent); and Amarillo, Texas (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-06-C-0292).
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