Contract: Bell-Boeing, $32.4M

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $32,401,348 modification to previously issued cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order 0026 placed against basic ordering agreement N00019-12-G-0006. This modification provides for software and hardware upgrades for 28 V-22 flight simulators for the U.S. Marine Corps (19 MV-22) and the U.S. Air Force (9 CV-22). Work will be performed in Chantilly, Va. (26 percent); Broken Arrow, Okla. (21 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (18 percent); St. Louis, Mo. (10 percent); Philadelphia, Pa. (5 percent); Mildenhall, United Kingdom (5 percent); Albuquerque, N.M. (4 percent); Clovis, N.M. (4 percent); Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (4 percent); Clifton, N.J. (2 percent); and Orlando, Fla. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2020. This modification combines purchase for the U.S. Air Force/Special Operations (71 percent) and the U.S. Navy (29 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 08/30/16)