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Sierra Nevada Continues Work On DVE Systems For Air Force, Army Helicopters

Frank Wolfe

Monday, July 20th, 2020

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Sierra Nevada Continues Work On DVE Systems For Air Force, Army Helicopters

Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Degraded Visual Environment systems are to aid air crews during brownout conditions (Sierra Nevada Corp. Photo)

Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) is continuing its work to build and field degraded visual environment (DVE) systems for DoD helicopters, including the U.S. Air Force HH-60 combat search and rescue (CSAR) fleet by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the Boeing [BA] MH-47 and Lockheed Martin MH-60 for U.S. Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Last April, SNC won an $88 million contract for the Degraded Visual Environment Pilotage System (DVEPS) that is to fuse information from aircraft sensors…

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