Sikorsky bags $1.28 billion Air Force combat rescue helicopter contract

 Defence and Security

The initial engineering and manufacturing development phase of the new combat rescue helicopter contract award worth $1.28 million has been awarded by Air Force to Sikorsky Aircraft Company on June 26.

The procurement of the first four of the program’s planned 112 aircraft are also included in the contract.

According to Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force - The Air Force has considered upgrading the platform that executes this sacred mission for all Department of Defense personnel who go into harm’s way, during the span of past decade. The Air Force is pledged to provide military ethos to this mission.

The Air Force is the fundamental service tasked to train, organize, equip and facilitate forces to handle global personnel recovery operations with the particular capability to handle theater-wide combat rescue and search.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/sikorsky-bags-128-billion-air-force-combat-rescue-helicopter-contract-79.php