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Amarillo Firm Wins $34.4 Million Aircraft Control Contract Change

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $34.4 million contract change on Osprey flight controls, the U.S. Department of Defense.

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, received a $34,445,395 modification to a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order placed previously against basic ordering agreement for engineering and technical support for V-22 flight control system and on-aircraft avionics software for 2012 for the Navy and Air Force. 

Support to be provided includes configuration changes to the V-22 avionics and flight control software; flight test planning and coordination of changed avionics and flight control configurations; upgrade planning of avionics and flight controls, including performance of qualification testing; and integration testing on software products. 

Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pa. (90 percent), and Fort Worth, Texas (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2012. 

Contract funds in the amount of $6,583,104 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. 

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., handled the contract.