Bell Boeing Updating Software for V-22 Aircraft

Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded $10,097,044 for modification P00006 to a previously issued delivery order placed against a basic ordering agreement. This modification provides for the procurement of software updates to address capability defect packages in support of the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (92 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (8 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2019. Fiscal year 2018 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,097,044 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.