AviationNews – Defence contractor Oasis Systems has lodged a formal bid protest with the Government Accountability Office against the U.S. Army’s decision to award a...
The US Army has selected Boeing to advance to Phase 2 of the Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC)…
AeroTime•Clement Charpentreau10 Sept
The US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Conti Federal Services a contract to build a specialized hangar…
AeroTime•Clement Charpentreau9 Sept
Why Piasecki's flying jeep was six decades ahead of its time.
The U.S. Army awarded Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, a contract worth up to $472 million to provide engineering services that support the modernization and sustainment of the CH‑47 Chinook fleet. The engineering services will deliver avionics upgrades that help integrate new capabilities more efficiently, address obsolescence and strengthen the aircraft’s avionics architecture to
During the recent Project Convergence Capstone 6, an H-60M Black Hawk crew employed an Altius-700 Air-Launched Effect to autonomously find the target, pass data across the formation, and strike. As explained by Sikorsky in an interview at Farnborugh International Airshow last month, a major focus of Armed Black Hawk’s development is on air-launched effects (A-LE): […]
The Aviationist•David Cenciotti1 Sept
A US Army MH-60 Black Hawk assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment came down during a…
AeroTime•Clement Charpentreau26 AugAviationNews – A U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment went down in the rugged Colorado foothills...
An MH-60 Black Hawk of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment crashed in a wooded area in Colorado, and the crew was able to escape without injuries. A U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk, assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), has crashed in Colorado on Aug. 25, 2026. The crew was […]
The Aviationist•Stefano D'Urso25 Aug
With no replacement coming any time soon, the US Army is currently working to upgrade its Chinook fleet to fly into the 2040s.
On August 20, 2026, a twin-engine turboprop Cessna 441 Conquest II, operated by Anchorage-based charter operator Security Aviation, crashed near a remote military installation in southwest Alaska, resulting in the deaths of all eight people aboard. The flight was an on-demand charter contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to transport personnel on an […]
World Airline News•Bruce Drum21 Aug
During joint counter-drone training at Bemowo Piskie Training Area in Poland on August 18, 2026, US Army drone operators flew first-person-view aircraft for Romanian crews to…
AeroTime•Clement Charpentreau21 Aug
The U.S. Army selected M1 Services to modernize helicopter pilot training at Fort Rucker through its new Flight School Next program.
AVweb•Amelia Walsh19 Aug
Elroy Air, a leading U.S.-based technology developer of autonomous heavy-cargo drones for defense, rapid response and commercial logistics, today announced that the company has created three new unattended delivery modes for its Chaparral drone, developed under contract with the U.S. Army. Chaparral can now deliver payloads three ways: precision airdrop from a hover, precision airdrop
The next-generation T901, developed as part of the ITEP program, cleared the Preliminary Flight Rating and will now proceed toward full airworthiness qualification testing. The T901 engine developed by GE Aerospace to replace the T700 engines powering the U.S. Army’s UH-60M Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache fleets has completed Preliminary Flight Rating (PFR) testing, the […]
The Aviationist•Parth Satam17 AugAviationNews – Airbus signs USD115m deal with US Army for up to 12 more UH-72Bs, ensuring the continued modernization of the Army National Guard’s rotary-wing...
M1 Support Services (M1) announced late on Friday that it has been awarded a single-award IDIQ contract with a ceiling value of $10 billion and a 26-year period of performance to provide Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) training under the Army’s Flight School Next (FSN) Program. Multiple bids had been put forward in recent months,
M1 Support Services (M1) has secured a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to US$10 billion to provide Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) training under the US Army’s Flight School Next (FSN) programme. The contract has a 26-year period of performance and forms part of the Army’s efforts to modernise rotary-wing pilot training while […]
AviTrader•Heike Tamm17 Aug
M1’s victory in Flight School Next effectively clears the way for the light commercial helicopter after it survived a competition that ended against the Bell 505
Air Data News•Ricardo Meier16 AugAviation News – US Army Selects M1 Support Services for Flight School Next The US Army selected M1 Support Services to deliver its Flight School...
