US Navy awards Sikorsky $879M contract for CH-53K helicopters
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The Lot 5 contract includes $878.7 million for nine
helicopters, as well as an option for a Lot 6 contract that would buy nine more
helos for $852.5 million, according to a Naval Air Systems Command statement.
The Lot 5 contract brings the cost of Sikorsky’s
portion of the helicopter down to $97.6 million apiece, and the Lot 6 contract
would reduce that to $94.7 million apiece, according to NAVAIR. This cost does
not include the engine or other government-furnished equipment. The cost per
helicopter under the most recent Lot 4 contract appears to be about $102.1
million: NAVAIR stated the per-unit cost from Lot 4 to Lot 6 had dropped by
$7.4 million.
“This contract award is a testament to the hard work
and dedication from the team to execute this critical program in support of the
U.S. Marine Corps’ heavy lift requirement,” Col. Jack Perrin, the heavy lift
helicopter program manager, said in the NAVAIR statement.
The Lot 5 low-rate initial production contract,
awarded June 25, increases the number of CH-53Ks on contract to 33. These nine
Lot 5 aircraft are to be delivered in 2024.
Sikorsky has delivered the first three CH-53Ks since October 2020.
According to a Sikorsky statement, the Lot 6 option
would be executed no later than February 2022, using fiscal 2022 funds that are
currently under discussion in Congress.
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