Contract: Bell Boeing, $24.5M

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $24,500,000 contract for the development and delivery of safety corrective actions, reliability and maintainability improvements, and quick reaction capability improvements in support of V-22 Osprey missions for the Air Force Special Operations Command and the Marine Corps. Work will be performed in Pennsylvania and Texas and is expected to be completed in December 2010. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 07/15/09) Gulf Coast note: Ospreys are used by the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla.