3-Jan-2018 Source: US DoD
Bell-Boeing JPO, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $12,797,722 for cost-plus- fixed-fee delivery order N0001917F1034 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-17-G-0002) in support of the V-22. This order procures mission management and flight control software updates to cockpit displays that will provide aircrews with more situational awareness and improved flight control during brown-out conditions. This is one phase in a multi-phase effort to improve overall aircraft performance and crew situational awareness in a degraded visual environment. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed in December 2019. Fiscal 2016 and 2017 budget program (Air Force); and fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $12,797,722 will be obligated at time of award, $11,912,722 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.