Collins Aerospace has secured an engineering services contract worth up to $472 million from the U.S. Army as part of a broader Chinook fleet modernization effort, tasked with overhauling the avionics on the CH-47F Chinook. The RTX-owned company’s work will span navigation and mission systems, extending the service life of the heavy-lift helicopter for continued use in demanding combat environments.
The work will be carried out at Collins Aerospace facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Under the contract, engineers will speed up the integration of new capabilities into the fleet, resolve issues tied to aging components, and reinforce the aircraft’s avionics to keep pace with a rapidly shifting operational landscape.
Jenny Miller, vice president and general manager of Vision and Sensing Systems at Collins Aerospace, said the company equips the Chinook with a flexible, interoperable cockpit that ties together communication, navigation and mission subsystems to meet today’s operational demands. She added that the company’s long-standing avionics partnership with the U.S. Army keeps the fleet evolving to support warfighters as future requirements emerge.
Chinook Fleet Aims for Greater Commonality Across Platforms
The contract also supports the Army’s push for greater commonality across its aviation fleet, advancing open, reusable avionics systems that can be applied across multiple aircraft types. This approach shortens the time needed to bring new technology into service, cuts down on integration complexity, and delivers cost and schedule savings. With this step, the Chinook fleet modernization effort moves the Army closer to its long-term platform commonality goals.
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Source: C4Defence–RTX
