-22 Osprey Flight Test Continues: Bell Boeing’s $23.3M Navy Contract Update
Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $23,305,660 cost-plus-fixed-fee, level of effort modification (P00016) to an order (N0001921F0008) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002). This modification exercises an option to provide continued flight test support for the V-22 Osprey aircraft for the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and the government of Japan. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (70%); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (15%); Fort Worth, Texas (10%); and Hurlburt Field, Florida (5%), and is expected to be completed in January 2025. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,220,000; fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,891,225; fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $1,831,520; fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $1,505,934; fiscal 2024 procurement (Defense-wide) funds in the amount of $532,000; fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Defense-wide) funds in the amount of $392,000; and Foreign Military Sales customer funds in the amount of $943,202 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.