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Sikorsky’s Nabs $43 Million Black Hawk Upgrade Deal For ‘Digital Backbone,’ Launched Effects Work

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Sikorsky’s Nabs $43 Million Black Hawk Upgrade Deal For ‘Digital Backbone,’ Launched Effects Work
An Area-I Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., March 4 where the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center led a demonstration that highlighted the forward air launch of the ALTIUS. (Courtesy photo provided by Yuma Proving Ground)

The Army has awarded Sikorsky [LMT] a $43 million deal for an array of modernization engineering efforts for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, to include airframe enhancements, building out a “digital backbone” capability and work to integrate with launched effects. Sikorsky described the contract as an initial award to move out on the modernization efforts, which follows the Army’s commitment to focus on upgrades for its UH-60 fleet following its aviation restructure last year. “This initial work on airframe enhancements,…

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