Scott Nicholas
A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has received a potential $57.1 million contract modification to engineer and retrofit one MV-22 Osprey aircraft for the U.S. Navy.
The Defense Department said Thursday Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office will provide non-recurring engineering and retrofitting services under the V-22 Common Configuration-Readiness and Modernization program.
DoD noted the service branch aims to reconfigure the MV-22 aircraft into a Block C common configuration.
The Navy obligated $15.7 million in fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement funds at the time of modification award.
Bell-Boeing JPO will perform work in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, and Fort Worth, Texas, through December 2019.
