$23.4M Funding Boost for Bell Boeing’s Osprey Flight Test Operations with U.S. and Japan Forces

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $23,420,682 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00021) 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 2026. Fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,164,907; fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,402,009; fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $2,419,793; fiscal 2025 procurement (Defense-wide) funds in the amount of $532,000; fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation (Defense-wide) funds in the amount of $392,000; fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $1,796,590; and Foreign Military Sales customer funds in the amount of $1,542,414, will be obligated at the time of award, of which $1,542,414 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.