The US Navy has awarded Rolls-Royce a $21.4million contract to build and deliver eight AE1107C engines for their V-22 Osprey helicopters.
The work will be carried out in Indianapolis and is expected to be completed by November 2024. Exact funds of $21,473,824 will be paid to Rolls-Royce Corp, in what is a firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract.
The V-22 Osprey helicopter is a tiltrotor military aircraft, which combines the vertical take-off and landing capabilities of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft. Rolls-Royce had previously secured an $115.6million, in 2020, for ship engines, propulsion components and services.
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K 41 Vertical Launching System modules are rapid-fire missile systems that are built on to warships. The US Navy report that: “This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $642,909,326.”
The work is expected to be completed by June 2027, while ‘if all options are exercised’, then work will continue on to July 2030.
The Navy has also agreed a $23,880,845 deal with Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems for “for technical and field engineering efforts in support of the Next Generation Surface Search Radar”.
The US Army has awarded contracts for May, with Chantilly-based Direct Viz Solutions LLC being handed a $10,404,631 deal for “for enterprise-level command, control, communications, computers, and information management, and operating, managing and defending the enterprise IT infrastructure”.
Finally, Diverse Technology Korps will be given $10,404,631 for “for gunnery range operations, maintenance and repair”, for which the work will be carried out in Alabama, for a June 2026 deadline.
The Navy has also agreed a $23,880,845 deal with Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems for “for technical and field engineering efforts in support of the Next Generation Surface Search Radar”.
The US Army has awarded contracts for May, with Chantilly-based Direct Viz Solutions LLC being handed a $10,404,631 deal for “for enterprise-level command, control, communications, computers, and information management, and operating, managing and defending the enterprise IT infrastructure”.
Finally, Diverse Technology Korps will be given $10,404,631 for “for gunnery range operations, maintenance and repair”, for which the work will be carried out in Alabama, for a June 2026 deadline.
