PAXRVR Awards $17.6M to Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $17,603,960 not-to-exceed modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0001) for initial spare parts in support of fiscal year 2005 Lot II UH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft. Work will be performed in Amarillo, Texas, and is expected to be completed in September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.