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Army Currently Negotiating Final Multi-Year Black Hawk, Apache Contracts As Priority Shifts To FVL

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

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Army Currently Negotiating Final Multi-Year Black Hawk, Apache Contracts As Priority Shifts To FVL

A Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The Army is in the process of negotiating its final multi-year contracts for the Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, as the service shifts its priority to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) fleet, an official said Wednesday Brig. Gen. Rob Barrie, the Program Executive Officer for Aviation, specifically said that maintaining readiness for the Army’s Apache, Black Hawk, Chinook and legacy unmanned and fixed-wing aircraft remains a priority for his office but at a tier below development of the Future Long…

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