A team consisting of Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary and Boeing has selected Honeywell to provide auxiliary power units for the Defiant X helicopter. Defiant X is the Sikorsky-Boeing team’s helicopter offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program and is being evaluated in a digital combat environment, Honeywell said Monday. Honeywell will provide […] More

A heavy-lift helicopter that Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary designed and built for the U.S. Marine Corps has entered the initial operational capability phase. The service branch issued its IOC declaration for the CH-53K program after the manufacturer and the Department of the Navy completed initial test and evaluation procedures, Lockheed said Monday. Sikorsky previously demonstrated […] More

Sentar has secured a task order with the U.S. Navy to provide security engineering, develop software and support the technical needs of a presidential helicopter made by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The contractor said Tuesday it will support the software development life cycle of the VH-92 Comprehensive Automated Maintenance Environment – Optimized helicopter’s maintenance and […] More

Triumph Group has received a follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin company Sikorsky to provide equipment for the increased production of CH-53K helicopters. The contractor said Friday its actuation products and services operating unit will deliver to Sikorsky equipment for CH-53K main rotor blade folding system, main rotor lag damper system and main rotor brake system. […] More

A Triumph Group business unit has been awarded a five-year contract to update fuel controller technology in the U.S. Navy’s SH-60 helicopter fleet. The company said Thursday it will perform modernize or repair work on the EMC-102 Enhanced Digital Electronic Control Units for the T700 engines that power the Seahawk aircraft. Justin Wolfanger, president of […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $65 million contract to commence the full-rate production of Link-16 for the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of combat helicopters. The company said Wednesday it will integrate the military tactical data link network into the AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft to enable fleet crews to share data and communications […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $42.15 million contract to help sustain the U.S. Army’s fleet of H-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Sikorsky will deliver non-personal technical services to the service branch at locations yet to be determined and must complete sustainment work by Dec. 31, 2026, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The Army […] More

Boeing has secured a $103.8 million in foreign military sales funds to manufacture AH-6 light attack helicopters for Thailand. The U.S. Army’s contracting organization issued obligated money from the Thai government through a contract modification to the Chicago-based aerospace and defense company. Work will take place at Boeing’s facility in Mesa, Arizona, and the DOD […] More

A Lockheed Martin business has received a production contract for the first four of 12 CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters ordered by Israel, with deliveries starting in 2025. The Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered company said Tuesday the Sikorsky CH-53K helicopters bought under a U.S. Navy-Israel Foreign Military Sales agreement will replace the country’s fleet of over five-decade-old Sikorsky CH-53D […] More

A Black Hawk helicopter completed its first unmanned flight with the use of an autonomy technology suite Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, which includes Sikorsky Matrix hardware and software, flew an uninhabited UH-60A aircraft for 30 minutes over Fort Campbell in […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to prototype an artificial intelligence technology that would integrate with augmented reality platform to assist helicopter pilots in performing their tasks. The company will work with the University of Central Florida to develop the Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant under DARPA’s Perceptually-enabled Task […] More

The U.S. Navy transitioned the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout ship-based unmanned helicopter to the operational deployment phase in mid-December. MQ-8C Fire Scout provided the service with improved intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities when fielded with the Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 aboard the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) Freedom-class littoral combat ship, […] More