U.S. Special Operations Command on July 12 awarded Boeing [BA] a $194 million contract to build a second lot of MH-47G Block II Chinooks. The award is a modification to the contract Boeing already holds for building SOCOM versions of the heavylift helicopters. The new deal covers six renew-build ...

Concerned that canceling Block II upgrades for the Army’s CH-47F Chinook helicopters could harm Boeing [BA] and its supply chain, the House Armed Services Committee wants to more than double program funding next fiscal year. The Army requested $18.2 million in advanced procurement for the CH-47F ...

For the better part of an hour on May 29, one of the oldest existing UH-60 Black Hawks was flown with a full-authority fly-by-wire flight control system that eventually could allow the aircraft to fly without a pilot on board. Sikorsky [LMT] has developed a kit that removes all legacy mechanical ...

The House Armed Services Committee’s tactical air and land forces panel wants the U.S. Army to submit by March 30 next year a “comprehensive strategy … for Army aviation to ensure alignment between requirements, future Army budget submissions, and authorization of appropriations.&# ...

U.S. House lawmakers want limitations placed on CH-53K King Stallion procurement spending until the Secretary of the Navy can report on the heavylift helicopter’s progress. In a summary of its mark of the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, the House Armed Services subcommittee on ...

Boeing [BA] has formally offered the German Air Force a version of the CH-47F Chinook helicopter as that country’s next heavylift helicopter. The German defense ministry’s acquisition arm issued a call for competition in late February for the “Schwerer Transporthubschrauber” (STH) ...