Ross Wilkers
A Boeing-Bell Helicopter joint venture has won a $28,846,120 Navy delivery order to provide Osprey aircraft that have new instruments, the Defense Department announced Friday.
The new aircraft will replace an existing aircraft used for engineering, manufacturing and development.
The new V-22 instrumented aircraft will also provide flight test data.
The Pentagon said contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Pentagon expects work under the fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee to finish by 2014.
The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity.
In February, the companies delivered new Ospreys to the Marine Corps, featuring new weather radars and environmental conditioning systems.
