Boeing was selected in 2018 to build both the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer replacement competition and the Navy’s MQ-25 aerial refueling drone — work which Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg estimated at $60 billion — and the Air Force’s replacement for UH-1N Huey helicopters.
> The late-year windfall in rotorcraft began Dec. 20, when Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support, a joint venture of the two aerospace giants that provides logistics support to U.S. Special Operations Command, was awarded more than $1 billion to maintain SOCOM rotorcraft.
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursable contract is worth up to $1.1 billion for life cycle contractor support for the MH-6 Little Bird, MH-47 Chinook, and MH-60 Black Hawk aircraft.
The majority of the work will be performed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
> The same day, Boeing proper took home a $250 million contract for engineering and logistics support services for the Army’s CH-47 Chinook fleet, an award that had only one bidder.
Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2023.
> Less than a week later, on Dec. 26, the company’s Mesa, Arizona, arm signed a deal to sell $49 million of AH-64 Apache aircraft, weapons, sensors and related equipment to the Qatari Air Force through the foreign military sales program.
> The following day, the Bell-Boeing joint program office in Amarillo, Texas, got a $13 million fixed-price contract from for 218 V-22 operational test sets for the U.S. Navy, Japan and other unnamed FMS customers “including non-recurring engineering to address potential obsolescence issues,” according to a U.S. Defense Department contract announcement.
> On Dec. 28, the same JPO won a huge $366.6 million modification to a previous contract that covers production and delivery of three CMV-22 carrier onboard delivery aircraft for the U.S. Navy and two MV-22B Ospreys for the Marine Corps.
> To kick off the new year, the V-22 team on Jan. 2 was awarded $23 million for continued operation of the V-22 test aircraft at Naval Air Station Patuxent River and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona.
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