Contract: Bell-Boeing, $21.4M

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $21,395,545 for cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order 0096 against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-12-G-0006) for non-recurring engineering in support of the MV-22 Integrated Aircraft Survivability Equipment Universal Urgent Needs Statement Effort. This order provides for the replacement of the warning system and radar warning receiver system and upgrades the capabilities of the programmer and associated software. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (86 percent); Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (4 percent); Hurst, Texas (2 percent); and Salisbury, Md. (2 percent); and various locations throughout the United States (6 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2016. Fiscal 2014 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $21,395,545 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 08/28/14)