Bell Boeing awarded US Navy contract for V-22 Osprey software sustainment.

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $42,238,558 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement. This order procures fleet software sustainment including engineering and technical support for the V-22 flight control system and on-aircraft avionics for the Marine Corps and Air Force.

MV-22 Ospreys arrive at U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii (Picture source: U.S. MoD)

Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (93 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (7 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2021. Fiscal 2017, 2018 and 2019 aircraft procurement (Navy and Air Force) funds; fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy and Air Force) funds; and fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $38,546,169 will be obligated at the time of award, $10,206,333 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines purchases for the Marine Corps ($25,548,289; 66 percent); and the Air Force ($12,997,880; 34 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.