US Navy Orders Combat Helicopter Parts For Ospreys, Sikorsky H-53s
Raytheon has won more than $9 million to deliver additional parts for the US Navy's V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor and Sikorsky H-53 heavy airlift helicopters.
"Raytheon Co., McKinney, Texas, is being awarded $9,088,102… for seven different part numbers with various quantities of in support of the V-22 and H-53 aircraft," the US Department of Defense said in a press release Tuesday.
Work on the contract will be performed in McKinney, Texas, and work is expected to be completed by June 2018, the Defense Department added.
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