Bell-Boeing Team Wins V-22 Work

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, won a $23.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy for additional engineering and technical support for management of the V-22 flight control system and on-aircraft software after completion of the V-22 Engineering and Manufacturing, Development Phase. Efforts will support configuration changes to the software for V-22 aircraft for flight controls, flight test planning and coordination of changed flight control configurations, upgrade planning of flight controls, including performance of qualification testing and integration testing on software products. Work will be performed in Philadelphia (90 percent) and Fort Worth, Texas (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in 2009.