The Defense Department plans to significantly transform its vertical-lift aircraft fleet over the next 40 years, eying joint common multirole classes of aircraft as part of its strategy for next-generation rotorcraft development.
The Defense Department plans to significantly transform its vertical-lift aircraft fleet over the next 40 years, eying joint common multirole classes of aircraft as part of its strategy for next-generation rotorcraft development.
A Senate defense panel has voted to bolster Army aircraft procurement by more than $200 million in the Defense Department's fiscal year 2011 budget request, with significant funds slated for Black Hawk and Chinook buys.
A powerful Senate defense spending panel has zeroed funding for the Air Force's effort to replace its aging HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search-and-rescue helicopters, citing concerns that the service's current recapitalization plan could yield the same result as a prior attempt, which was terminated by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Despite trimming $8 billion from the Obama administration's fiscal year 2011 defense spending request, the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee plans on fully funding many of the Army's ground and aerial vehicle platforms and providing additional funding to some programs, according to statement issued today by the subcommittee.
The subcommittee met this morning to consider the administration's FY-11 request. The full Senate Appropriations Committee will meet Thursday afternoon to consider the subcommittee's bill.
The Army has begun the second phase of an analysis of alternatives to the Armed Aerial Scout helicopter effort following a decision to proceed with a manned-unmanned capability requirement, according to service officials.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $260 million follow-on production contract for the Arrowhead system, a modernized sensor for the Army's fleet of AH-64D Apache helicopters.
The Defense Department has adjusted its $1.6 trillion portfolio of major weapon systems being developed and acquired, formally ushering in 11 new programs and completing paperwork on four major efforts whose procurement runs are complete or nearly finished.
Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin have inked a deal to compete for the Air Force's HH-60 Recapitalization program, a move that company officials say could help put desperately needed combat search-and-rescue helicopters on the ramp before 2015.
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