Contracts

The U.S. Army Contracting Agency has awarded a $24.3-million rotary-wing flight training contract to Lear Siegler Services, Inc. for a six-month period beginning April 1. Lear Siegler is the incumbent contractor. It is to provide services including undergraduate, graduate and Air Force helicopter flight training services. The contract has four one-year options.

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command says it will award a sole-source, firm, fixed-price contract to Diagnostic Solutions of Jacksonville, N.C. for technical and engineering support services to its H-46 program office, PMA-226, at MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., for the Aircraft Integrated Maintenance System (AIMS) on the Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight. That system is a constellation of vibration and other sensors that collect data necessary to conduct rotor-blade track and balance and data manipulation for health monitoring for all rotating components and engines. The data is presented to the cockpit crew and is usable for engine adjustments when prescribed.

Air Industries Group’s Welding Metallurgy subsidiary has won a new contract valued at more than $700,000 from GKN Aerospace of Alabama for welded helicopter assemblies. Air Industries is an integrated manufacturer of precision components and provider of supply chain services for the aerospace and defense industry. Acquired by Air Industries in August 2007, Welding Metallurgy has relocated to a 25,000-sq-ft facility in Hauppauge, N.Y.

Standard Aero has won a $6-million contract from Canadian Helicopters Ltd. for exclusive component repair and overhaul services on the Rolls-Royce 250 engine. The contract includes a possible one-year extension. Standard Aero has been the sole maintenance provider for CHL on the 250 since 2001.

Raytheon has won a $7.7-million contract from the U.S. Navy for three AN/ASQ-235 airborne mine neutralization systems. The system is intended to be deployed by helicopters to locate and destroy underwater mines previously detected by a Raytheon sonar system.

Dallas-based Vought Aircraft Industries has signed a contract with Bell Helicopter worth more than $400 million to manufacture empennages, ramps and ramp doors for the V-22 Osprey through 2013.