Nichols Martin
A joint venture between Bell Helicopter and Boeing has received a $23.3 million order to deliver flight test and evaluation services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey aircraft.
The Naval Air Systems Command obligated the whole amount in fiscal 2018 funds which will not expire upon the conclusion of the current fiscal year, the Defense Department said Tuesday .
The company will perform 90 percent of work at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland and the remaining 10 percent at Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona.
The Pentagon expects work to be finished by December 2018.
The V-22 is a multi-mission tiltrotor aircraft that integrates vertical flight capacities with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
