Helicopter News

South Korea recently selected Boeing’s [BA] AH-64E Apache for its potential $1.6 billion attack helicopter program over the AH-1Z Cobra offering from Textron [TXT] and a Turkish Aerospace Industry and […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] was awarded a contract to modernize the Joint Air Force Component Commanders’ system for generating air task orders. The Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) essentially controls […]

L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) [LLL] recently said it was awarded a contract from the Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) to build […]

Government auditors are questioning an argument–regarding decreased risk of having counterfeit parts–in favor of the Pentagon buying helicopters from a controversial Russian firm. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a […]

The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $433.5 million cost-plus-firm-fixed-fee contract for contractor logistics support for the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), according to a March 25 […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company’s second cargo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) recently when it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west […]

The United Kingdom recently awarded an approximately 10 year, $2.4 billion contract to Bristol Group’s [BRS] U.K. affiliate Bristow Helicopters Ltd., to provide search and rescue (SAR) services previously provided […]

Sikorsky [UTX] recently said the Colombian army has formally inducted five new Sikorsky S-70i multi-mission helicopters into its fleet of Black Hawk aircraft. Colombia is the first South American country […]