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Navy/USMC

Bell-Boeing Receives $146 Million To Continue MV-22 Osprey Upgrade Program

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

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Bell-Boeing Receives $146 Million To Continue MV-22 Osprey Upgrade Program

The first MV-22 to undergo the CC-RAM upgrade process at Boeing's new V-22 production facility in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

Bell [TXT] and Boeing [BA] have received a $146 million deal to continue work on the Marine Corps’ MV-22 Osprey modernization program to upgrade nine aircraft to the latest Block C configuration. The deal is in support of the Common Configuration-Readiness and Modernization (CC-RAM) to extend the service life of the Marines’ tiltrotor aircraft, and also includes planned maintenance work on an additional eight MV-22s. The upgrades are expected to be completed in March 2022 and will take place at…

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