Contract: Bell-Boeing, $11M

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded an $11,066,515 modification to a previously awarded contract for Increment II of the CV-22 aircraft Block 20 upgrade program. The project is to integrate and test the V-22 Multi-Mission Advanced Tactical Terminal Replacement Receiver, an improved crew interface of broadcast data. Nine percent of the work will be done in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Other sites are Philadelphia, Pa., and Fort Worth, Texas. Work is expected to be completed in September 2012. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/12/09)