Sikorsky Aircraft is drawing a series of U.S. Department of Defense awards for various components and systems necessary for assembling, outfitting, and maintaining CH-53K aircraft – generally known as the King Stallion heavy transport helicopters. Four individual awards defined as modifications to previously awarded contracts carry a total value of $96.4 million.
The CH-53K helicopter is designed and manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft, a Lockheed Martin company, and the largest and heaviest helicopter in use by the U.S. service branches, and specifically by the U.S. Marine Corps.
All of the awards are defined by the Dept. of Defense as modifications to earlier contracts.
In the first award, the Pentagon assigned $38,934,272 to Sikorsky to procure a wide range of probes, cargo hooks, load cells, six probes, and numerous other components for the CH-53K aircraft.
The second award is valued at $27,400,278 and specifies purchases of junction boxes, rotor positioners, five supplemental armors, electromechanical rotary actuators, aircraft seat frames, standardized electronic modules, and aircraft seats.
In the third award, for $20,075,821, is for accumulators, valve selectors, reserve systems, metallic particle detectors, other metallic particle detectors, lower swivels, five manifold valve assemblies, aircraft components modification kits, aircraft mechanical actuators, metallic particle detectors, chip sensors, five accumulators, mechanical actuators, control module units, and gate valves for the CH-53K aircraft.
The last award, for $9,956,656, calls for Sikorsky to procure pilot controls and cyclic for the CH-53K aircraft.
All the work on these awards will be performed by Sikorsky in Stratford, Connecticut.
