Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has handed over its S-97 Raider compound helicopter to a team to improve the design of the company’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft offering for the U.S. Army, Rotor & Wing International reported Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary plans to resume test efforts for a high-speed helicopter designed to support a U.S. Army initiative, FlightGlobal reported Sunday.

Collins Aerospace and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary have collaborated to create a fly-by-wire retrofit technology that works to allow autonomous flights for fixed wing and rotary systems.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary flew a Black Hawk helicopter aircraft through the use of an optionally piloted vehicle technology kit in a flight demonstration May 29.

Dan Schultz, president of Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday about several helicopter projects including a potential $1.1B contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to build 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary completed the first flight of its HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter this Friday, where the search and rescue aircraft’s capabilities were assessed at the company’s site in West Palm Beach, Fla. Sikorsky said Friday the flight test comes as part of an Air Force program that seeks to acquire 113 new HH-60Ws. Compared to the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters that currently support the military branches’ personnel recovery operations, the new HH-60W model can hold almost twice as much fuel as the HH-60G, in addition to being designed for improved defense.

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has received awards from the Vertical Flight Society in validation of the company’s efforts in rotocraft technology. The organization awarded three teams and four individuals from Sikorsky during the 75th Annual Forum and Technology event, Lockheed said Thursday.

Tim Malia, director of future vertical lift-light at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told The War Zone in an interview published Wednesday about the X2 helicopter technology and its potential role in the development of FVL aircraft. “The term X2 technology refers to a suite of technologies developed by Sikorsky that enable the X2 aircraft to operate at high speed while improving operational capability, maneuverability, agility, survivability, and lethality at the landing zone,” Malia said.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary received a four-year, $23.4M contract to perform overhaul and maintenance work on UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army.

A helicopter platform developed by the team of Boeing and Sikorsky flew for the first time Thursday at the latter’s facility in West Palm Beach, Fla.

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary a type certificate for the company’s S-70M Black Hawk medium utility helicopter.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary is set to enter the flight-test phase for a pair of HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters being produced for the U.S. Air Force.