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

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 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

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary received a special airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration permitting the sale of a Black Hawk helicopter variant for limited civil and commercial operations. The FAA certification allows non-military customers to acquire the S-70M straight from factory and use the aircraft in agricultural, external cargo and forest and wildlife conservation […] More

Sikorsky held a ceremony Friday to mark the completion of the first CH-53K cargo helicopter that was produced for the U.S. Marine Corps at the manufacturer’s digital factory in Stratford, Connecticut. The Lockheed Martin subsidiary built the new King Stallion vehicle using digital technology and other advanced manufacturing equipment, as part of a 200-unit USMC […] More

The partnership between Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has submitted a proposal for the U.S. Army’s development program that seeks to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter with a new assault aircraft. The Sikorsky-Boeing team has entered the service branch’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition with the partnership’s Defiant X helicopter bid, Lockheed […] More

Bell Textron is now shifting focus to an upcoming U.S. Army aircraft program of record competition in summer after ending the three-year flight testing of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft. The Textron subsidiary said Thursday that it would start working on the weapons system and subsystem designs of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft candidate. Bell […] More

Paul Lemmo, president of Sikorsky, told Defense News in an interview published Monday about his near-term priorities as head of the Lockheed Martin subsidiary and one of those is transitioning the Combat Rescue Helicopter and CH-53K programs into the production phase. “Both of them are going into [initial operational test and evaluation] IOT&E and we’re […] More

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has demonstrated supervised autonomous operations of a Black Hawk military helicopter as part of a testing program with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed to reduce pilot workload while ensuring flight safety.

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Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $94.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce six additional Black Hawk helicopters intended for medical evacuation use. The branch exercised an option under a previously awarded contract to procure lot 45 HH-60M choppers, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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CAE's U.S. subsidiary has received a prime contract to train aircraft pilots of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the company's Dothan Training Center and other business aviation facilities. CAE USA will provide training on fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft in classroom, simulated and actual flight environments to help pilots meet requirements imposed by CBP and the Federal Aviation Administration, CAE said Tuesday.

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