AAR [AIR] recently said it was chosen by the Army under a five year contract potentially worth more than $23 million to upgrade and overhaul Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) for its UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

The work will be done at AAR’s Aircraft Component Services facility in Garden City on Long Island.

The contract will initially cover work on 60 APUs from the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., with a maximum of 520 APUs over the life of the contract.

“This award recognizes and builds on a core competency at AAR,” said Robert Sopp, AAR Executive Vice President. “We are honored to provide this important service to our nation’s military, and we look forward to providing these services for APUs on other military platforms in the near future.”