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Keeping the Lakota helicopter flying for the Army and National Guard is also a job for the OEM

Keeping the Lakota helicopter flying for the Army and National Guard is also a job for the OEM
Keeping the Lakota helicopter flying for the Army and National Guard is also a job for the OEM

The UH-72 Lakota is the Army’s third largest fleet. Larger than the Chinook fleet and 75 percent the size of the Apache fleet, here’s how commercial practices make a difference in sustaining the fleet and enabling Army readiness.

Air Force Abandons Sole Source Nuke Helos Deal

Air Force Abandons Sole Source Nuke Helos Deal
Air Force Abandons Sole Source Nuke Helos Deal

With legislators demanding open competition for new helicopters to carry security teams to far-flung missile silos in an emergency, the Air Force has bowed to congressional pressure. Sikorsky had been hopeful of a $1.4 billion sole-source deal to replace the aging UH-1N helicopters, whose poor performance in counterterrorism drills had the Air Force saying it needed to bypass…

Air Force Strategy on UH-1N: Wait and Hurry Up

Air Force Strategy on UH-1N: Wait and Hurry Up
Air Force Strategy on UH-1N: Wait and Hurry Up

What could justify the Air Force awarding a sole source contract for helicopters worth close to a billion – that’s a thousand millions – dollars? Pick an answer: A classified joint service military exercise called Mighty Guardian in which some of the 62 aging UH-1N Huey helicopters failed their assignment to carry security forces to…