Bell-Boeing Awarded $88M for V-22 Modifications

Posted on: Jun. 27th, 2007 || Source: DoD | E-mail Article | Print Article

(DoD contract announcement) Bell-Boeing Tilt Rotor Team, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded an $88,131,228 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fix-fee contract (N00019-96-C-0054) for the incorporation of Engineering Change Proposal V-22-0704 for rework of four Lot III MV-22 (Marine variant) Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) tiltrotor aircraft to a Block A/B configuration.

Work will be performed in Amarillo, Texas (42 percent); Ridley Park, Pa. (30 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (28 percent) and is expected to be completed in November 2009. 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.
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