The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a two-year, $8.2 million delivery order to design, build and maintain avionics systems for the Presidential Helicopter Program. The order falls under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers avionics hardware and software development, testing, fabrication, installation and maintenance services, the Defense Department said Monday. Lockheed’s logistics services unit will perform […] More

L-3 Communications has been chosen to supply electro-optical and infrared designating turrets for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters of a Middle Eastern defense customer under a foreign military sales agreement. New York City-headquartered L-3 said Tuesday its Wescam MX-10D EO/IR turrets will work to help the customer execute counterterrorism missions from UH-60s helicopters. The company added its integrated sensor systems segment began to […] More

Lockheed Martin has changed the name of its mission systems and training business area in an effort to demonstrate the company’s expanded portfolio after it completed the acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp. for approximately $9 billion in November. The business area will start to operate as Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business segment […] More

A U.S. Marine Corps official has said he believes the service branch’s future vertical lift program should operate as an optionally piloted helicopter designed to perform some missions, Flight Global reported Friday. “Especially for a high reliability airplane, we view that airplane as a manned platform,” Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, told […] More

The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the Stanchion Litter System developed by a business unit of Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky as compliant with the agency’s minimum performance standard for aircraft appliances and components. Lockheed Martin said Monday the FAA Technical Standard Order approval works to support domestic and international installation of the LifePort-built system. SLS weighs less than 155 pounds, features […] More

Lockheed Martin is set to begin the assembly, test and evaluation for the VH-92A presidential helicopter replacement program after the company completed the program’s critical design review stage. The VH-92A is designed to transport the U.S. president and vice president and other officials and a team comprised of Sikorsky and the Naval Air Systems Command conducted the […] More

Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide a UH-60M Black Hawk simulator to the Mexican navy as part of an effort to help train the nation’s aviators in the operations of the helicopter built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The Mexican navy will use the Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator to help equip Black Hawk pilots with the skills […] More

The U.S. Air Force has unveiled its first fully built HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter under the Operational Loss Replacement program that works to bring the HH-60G fleet back to its authorized size and replace aircraft lost in previous combat operations. The Air Force said Tuesday 21 Sikorsky-built UH-60L Black Hawks will be integrated with modifications kits and additional equipment to build HH-60Gs under the OLR […] More

The United Arab Emirates has awarded CAE a set of contracts with a combined $111 million base value deliver helicopter simulators and develop a naval training center for the country’s joint aviation command and navy. CAE will design and develop a naval training center with ship simulation-based training suites and maritime aircraft sensor stations designed to conduct individual, team, chip and collective mission training, […] More

Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

Lifeport, a Sikorsky company, has won a $24 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply hospital and medical equipment to U.S. military organizations. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Lifeport will deliver the equipment to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps as well as federal civilian agencies through May 23, 2021. Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support will use fiscal year […] More

The U.S. Navy plans to update its MH-60 Seahawk helicopters in order to extend the service life of the aircraft through 2035, Navy Times reported Tuesday. Meghann Myers writes the Naval Air Systems Command must first assess the service life of the airframes in order to look into the extent of wear prior to extending the aircraft’s […] More