Thursday, February 19, 2009
Young: CSAR-X needs rethink
The Pentagon acquisition chief John Young has called for a rethink on how to carry out combat, search and rescue (CSAR) missions tailored to meet fifth-generation fighter missions.
Young said current and future upgraded CSAR helicopters have neither the range nor survivability to support the range of operations for the F-22 and F-35.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Pentagon wanted to sole-source CSAR-X
Michael Fabey from Aerospace Daily has found out that the Pentagon had tried to force the U.S. Air Force to forego an open competition for the CSAR-X competition.
Instead it wanted the service to conduct a directed buy of Bell-Boeing CV-22s, Boeing MH-47s, Sikorsky MH-60s, or a mixed fleet of these types.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
New round for CSAR-X evaluation starts
Work to select the new CSAR-X for the U.S. Air Force has started after three competitors submitted their bids by the Jan. 20 deadline.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Range and payload likely to decide next CSAR-X winner
According to Aviation Week, the USAF is still placing strong emphasis on payload and range performance when selecting the winner for the CSAR-X competition.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
HH-47 as CSAR-X aircraft
A new Pentagon vertical-lift study has stirred controversy as one of the slides identified the HH-47 as a CSAR-X helicopter.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Sikorsky more confident of winning CSAR-X
Sikorsky feels that the recently amended CSAR-X document favors its H-92.
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Sunday, December 07, 2008
Air Force officials release new amendment to CSAR-X RFP
The U.S. Air Force has released Amendment 7 to the Request for Proposals for the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter Dec. 5.
The amendment contains minor changes that are intended to further clarify how Air Force officials will make their source selection decision.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Peer Review For Major Pentagon Programs
The CSAR-X program is among the first to be affected by a new Pentagon directive to have programs that cost $1 billion or more to be reviewed by peer services.
As part of the new review, Army and Navy officials will conduct peer reviews of the Air Force acquisition programs before, during and after contract decisions.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
CSAR-X Award Likely To Slip To May or June 2009
The current Bush administration is unlikely to award the troubled USAF CSAR-X contract before it leaves office.
Aviation Week is reporting that the award is likely to be slipped until May or June of next year.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
CSAR-X faces more delay
Contractors bidding to supply helicopters for the USAF CSAR-X competition reported that briefings scheduled this month has been postponed.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
CSAR-X on track for October award
The U.S. Air Force said on Tuesday it is on track to award the CSAR-X contract this fall.
The service says it has learned its lesson from the KC-X program and works to ensure that the helicopter contract runs smoothly.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
CSAR-X could be delayed further
The U.S. Air Force will carry out another interim evaluation briefing in mid-September for the CSAR-X contest.
Usually this could mean a October-November deadline for contact award but the impending Presidential elections could delay the decision further.
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Saturday, August 09, 2008
VH-71 could help LM's CSAR-X bid
The recent good results shown by the VH-71 helicopter is expected to help Lockheed Martin in its CSAR-X bid.
Lockheed Martin initially did not achieve good results in the first round of the competition due to poor grades given for past performance.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Lockheed touts A-10C experience for CSAR-X
Integrating the datalink on the A-10C gives Lockheed Martin a networking advantage for the U.S. Air Force's CSAR-X contest.
LM says the US101 will be able to integrate with the A-10C on rescue missions since both of them uses the same datalink.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
INTERVIEW-Lockheed urges broader Air Force performance review
Lockheed vice president Dan Spoor said in a telephone interview with Reuters that the USAF should look at the company's performance on 13 different weapons programs instead of the VH-71 program when it evaluates its CSAR-X offer.
13 other programs? Like the expensive F-35 and F-22 or the JASSM?
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Wall Street braces for impact of Air Force leadership transition on key acquisition programs
Stock prices of Boeing and Lockheed Martin felled after the U.S. Air Force's top military and civilian officials were fired.
Wall Street investors and military analysts are wondering what impact the historic shake-up will have on the KC-X and CSAR-X competition.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Boeing upbeat about Air Force helicopter contest
Boeing's HH-47 bid for the CSAR-X contract is now more attractive than before and the aircraft takes lesser time to assemble.
Boeing HH-47 program manager Rick Lemaster told Reuters Boeing remains convinced that its proposal was and remains the best one for the Air Force.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Lockheed tries to reduce risk on helicopter bid
Lockheed Martin told Reuters this week that it has spent a significant amount to make its CSAR-X bid more attractive and less risky.
The company has focused on improving the past performance marks and eliminating a "high risk" rating it got the first time for new rotor blades that had not been tested.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Helicopter contract delayed again
The CSAR-X competition has been delayed again from July to October to comply with changes in the law restricting use of imported specialty metals.
Amendment 6 was released on Monday.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
HH-71 CSAR-X Team Successfully Demonstrates Aerial Refuelling Flights
The AgustaWestland and Lockheed Martin HH-71 Team successfully conducted aerial refuelling tests between a RAF AW101 Merlin Mk3 helicopter and an Italian Air Force C-130J tanker.
The successful fuel transfer occurred over the south of England on February 13, marking the first time a British helicopter demonstrated air-to-air refuelling capability.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
USAF To Upgrade HH-60Gs
Defense News has all the details on how the U.S. Air Force intends to upgrade its HH-60G helicopters to keep them operational till the CSAR-X enters service.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Rescue at Risk: Crucial Helicopter Requirement Weakened
Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has issued a report asking the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) to investigate a major requirement change in the U.S. Air Force's acquisition of the combat, search and rescue (CSAR-X) helicopter fleet.
The change centers around a key performance parameter requiring the helicopter to be deployable within three hours after being airlifted.
POGO charged that Air Force Special Operations Command officials were pressured by Boeing and the Pentagon to amend the parameter as the HH-47 has difficulty meeting the requirement.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
CSAR-X decision delay spurs Pave Hawk upgrades
Congress has given the USAF $99 million to upgrade the HH-60 Pave Hawk search-and-rescue helicopter to keep them flying until their replacement, the CSAR-X, is operational.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
US Air Force delays rescue helicopter selection
The U.S. Air Force said on Monday it had pushed back to the summer its latest plan to award the CSAR-X competition.
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne had earlier told Congress he expected a winner to be named by mid-February.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Air Force Offers 2nd Chance on $15B Deal
The U.S. Air Force has requested news bids for the CSAR-X search-and-rescue helicopter competition and this time the winner could be someone other than Boeing.
The resubmitted bids will be permitted to make major changes on everything from price to helicopter specifications.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
New CSAR-X RFP Should Help Repair AF Reputation
Industry analysts polled by Aerospace Daily & Defense Report says the new CSAR-X RFP will help the USAF repair its tarnished acquisition reputation.
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Air Force To Widen Scope Of CSAR-X Rebid
The U.S. Air Force will invite acquisition experts from the Army and Navy to analyze the new CSAR-X bids.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Boeing's Turn to Cry Foul in CSAR-X Saga
Boeing is complaining that Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin could use information obtained during the GAO investigation into the CSAR-X competition when the Air Force reconsider all three bids again.
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
US to "let best company win" in helicopter contest
The U.S. Air Force will reopen the CSAR-X competition. Senior Air Force officials will meet at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, next week to work out details on how to proceed.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
USAF Made KPP Change To Keep CSAR-X On Schedule
A key performance parameter (KPP) for the CSAR-X program was changed at a key review stage by U.S. Air Force Special Operations officials in order to keep Boeing's HH-47 in the competition.
Such an important change would have required close scrutiny by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC). However officials made the move as an administrative -- or relatively minor -- change, which required no such close review.
The requirement was modified to specify that the CSAR-X be "flight ready" within three hours from reassembly. The HH-47 made that requirement just under the wire.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
US Air Force seen redoing $15 bln helicopter contest
According to Loren Thompson, from the Lexington Institute, the U.S. Air Force could be forced to restart the CSAR-X competition from scratch again.
Thompson said uniformed Air Force officers had urged Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne to abandon his plans for a "quick and narrowly defined" restructuring of the competition initially won by Boeing.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
USAF Considering Combined Helo Buy
The USAF might consider a combined purchase of high-end HH-60G replacements and low-end support helicopters for executive transport and nuclear convoy support to solve its CSAR-X woes.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
The Struggle Over CSAR-X
Air Force Magazine looks at the ups and downs facing the U.S. Air Force CSAR-X rescue helicopter competition.
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Friday, August 31, 2007
GAO: Bidders Given Too Little Time to Respond to USAF’s Helo RFP
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has sided with Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky for the second time in the USAF CSAR-X rescue helicopter competition.
GAO agreed that the U.S. Air Force did not give bidders enough time to respond to May’s revised request for proposals but rejected other protests by the losing parties.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
More Boeing Downwash Questions
From Aviation Week : Boeing officials say the 1974 helicopter downwash study that calls into question whether an H-47 Chinook variant could meet Air Force combat, search and rescue (CSAR-X) requirements includes wash speeds immaterial to the CSAR-X competition.
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Sikorsky : USAF Broke Laws In CSAR-X Competition
Sikorsky charged that the U.S. Air Force ignored a U.S. Government Accountability Office opinion and violated federal procurement law and policy in the way the service handled the revised request for proposals (RFP) for the combat, search and rescue (CSAR-X) helicopter competition.
The Air Force refused to allow modifications in the revised proposals - even those that might be needed to meet the extended program delay due to the protests.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Boeing: Chinook Downwash CSAR-X Issue ''Closed''
Boeing clarifies that the downwash issue for the HH-47 has been settled and it met Pentagon's requirements during the CSAR-X competition.
Boeing says real-world testing reveals the maximum horizontal downwash velocity is less than the 65-knot requirement.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
US GAO still researching protested $15 bln 'copter
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said Tuesday it was still gathering information on the latest on the USAF CSAR-X rescue helicopter competition.
It expects to rule on the case before September and it was premature to forecast an exact date.
Meanwhile the USAF has rejected an unsolicited proposal from Lockheed Martin with a fully updated bid.
The air force said it would only accept a limited range of new information.
Sources
US GAO still researching protested $15 bln 'copter
New Lockheed Bid Rejected In US Air Force Copter Contest
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Brownout Accidents Plague CSAR-X Helicopter
The Project on Government Oversight released data Thursday showing that Boeing's Chinook suffers a disproportionately high number of accidents from "brownouts" than other helicopters.
It urged Congress to look into the Army data while reviewing the USAF's selection of the HH-47 for the CSAR-X helicopter competition.
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
US Air Force Asks For Speedy Review Of New Copter Protests
The U.S. Air Force said Tuesday it wants the Government Accountability Office to act quickly on new protests filed in the CSAR-X search-and-rescue helicopter competition.
At the Paris Air Show, industry sources said the Air Force was displeased with Sikorsky's decision to file its second protest this week, on the heels of a scathing letter to Air Force contracting officials.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
United Tech Executive Outlines New Challenge To Copter Contest
Sikorsky Aircraft will file another protest in the CSAR-X competition.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Lockheed Files New Protest In US Air Force Contest
Lockheed Martin Corp. on Monday said it had filed a new protest regarding the U.S. Air Force's CSAR-X rescue helicopter competition.
The company said the Air Force has not complied with Government Accountability Office recommendations.
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
US Air Force rebuffs criticism of rescue helicopter contest
The U.S. Air Force defended its position in a 13-page response to industry questions over the decision rebid only the part on life-cycle costs for the CSAR-X helicopter competition.
If the companies had other arguments, they should have raised them more forcefully during the GAO protest process, the Air Force said.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
US Air Force advances helicopter contest despite concerns
The U.S. Air Force is moving ahead with the CSAR-X helicopter competition, despite industry concerns that the Air Force hasn't fixed fundamental flaws in its bidding process.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
McCain pitches weapons acquisition reform
U.S. Senator John McCain on Tuesday cited both the F-22 Raptor and CSAR-X programs as examples of the need to reform the way the military acquires major weapon systems.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
USAF Drafts Changes In CSAR-X Request
The U.S. Air Force on Monday released draft changes to the RFP of the CSAR-X to the three competitors.
The changes were made to only a handful of paragraphs.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
House panel seeks FCS, JSF cuts to auth. bill
The U.S. House Armed Services' air and land forces subcommittee has cut funding for one F-35 from the fiscal 2008 supplemental and use the money to fund the development of the F136 engine.
The committee also cut more than $350 million from the KC-X and CSAR-X program.
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U.S. first ruled out Boeing helicopter it later chose
Internal U.S. Air Force documents obtained by Reuters showed that the Boeing HH-47 was initially ruled out of the CSAR-X competition.
Air Force spokesman Don Manuszewski said the Boeing helicopter was dropped from the initial documents because Boeing had not shown interest in the competition at that point.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
US Air Force seeks release of full GAO report on helicopter
The U.S. Air Force wants the Government Accountability Office to release more information on its ruling over the CSAR-X complain.
The report is currently sealed under a protective order.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Air Force to amend helicopter bidding documents
The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday it will amend bidding documents for the CSAR-X competition in May.
Sue Payton, the Air Force's chief weapons buyer, said the amendment is intended to meet "both the letter and the spirit" of the GAO recommendation.
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Friday, April 06, 2007
McCain questions U.S. helicopter pick
The senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, John McCain, is questioning the U.S. Air Force's choice of the HH-47 for the CSAR-X program.
McCain wrote a letter to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, expressing concern that the requirement for a medium-lift helicopter resulted in the selection of a heavier aircraft.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Air Force to Rebid $15B Helicopter Deal
The USAF will revised and reopened for bidding the CSAR-X program.
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GAO won't expand scope of DoD helicopter ruling
The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday said it would not expand the scope of its recommendations on CSAR-X program and rejected additional claims by the losing bidders.
Analysts said the new decision vindicates Air Force efforts to resolve the contest quickly, and that it also may increase Boeing chances of keeping the contract.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Air Force Discusses $15B Helicopter Deal
The U.S. Air Force sent letters Wednesday to Sikorsky and Lockheed on plans to reopen discussions and to revise the CSAR-X bid to clarify operation costs.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Air Force Won't Rebid Copter Contract
The U.S. Air Force said Tuesday that it will not reopen the CSAR-X competition but will continue to talk to Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky who protested the contract.
Lockheed said in a statement Tuesday the company looked forward to learning more from the Air Force.
A spokesman for Sikorsky, said, "Once the GAO decides the remaining protest issues as the Air Force has requested, we expect the Air Force to take whatever action is necessary to address the significant issues we raised and to complete a full and fair evaluation."
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Lockheed: We can meet copter deadline
Lockheed Martin assured the U.S. Air Force on Thursday that it can meet a 2012 delivery date for the CSAR-X program even if the award is delayed until later this year with the reopening of the bidding round.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Resolution Of Copter Bid Issues Sought
U.S. Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said Tuesday he would like to find a way to avoid re-bidding the CSAR-X competition.
Wynne said that re-bidding would be too expensive for the industry and that he wants to avoid a second round of protests.
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US Air Force Ask GAO to Reopen Helicopter Decision
The U.S. Air Force has asked the Government Accountability Office to re-examine its decision to uphold a protest to award the CSAR-X contract to Boeing.
The service had asked GAO to examine over 20 issues raised by the Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin but not addressed by GAO in its initial ruling last month.
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
Boeing chief confident of USAF order
Boeing chief Jim McNerney said he believes that the CSAR-X competition is unlikely to be resubmitted for competition.
"I do not think there will be a full-blown re-compete on the helicopter competition," Mr McNerney said.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
US Air Force Must Inform GAO on Boeing Deal
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said it has given the Air Force had 60 days to comply with its ruling urging the service to reopen the CSAR-X competition.
GAO rulings are nonbinding, but the agency told the Air Force it had to adopt the recommendations fully within 60 days or notify GAO that did not plan to do so.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
USAF: Let's Just Build the CSAR-X Already
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) may fault the Air Force for an inconsistent selection process in awarding the contract for the CSAR-X, but top Air Force officials say the procurement is simply headed for more protests, and they want to do whatever is necessary to resolve the problem and start building helicopters.
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told reporters Feb. 28 after congressional hearings, "I'd like to stay with what we've got."
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
GAO urges DoD to seek new bids on combat helicopter program
The Government Accountability Office sided with Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky and said that the USAF did not evaluate life cycle costs properly for the CSAR-X competition.
GAO recommended the Air Force amend its request for bids, hold new talks with contractors and then seek new bids.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Air Force lift measure called into question
Defense and industry officials said the U.S. Air Force officials have said they used a Pentagon weight matrix to determine that the Boeing HH-47 helicopter would meet the CSAR-X requirement, but there is scant evidence such a document exists.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
GAO Turns Down Boeing Request To Dismiss CSAR-X Award Protests
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has turned down Boeing's request to dismiss protests by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky against the awarding of the Air Force combat, search and rescue (CSAR-X) helicopter program contract to Boeing.
Industry sources such moves are commonplace procedure for such contract protests.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
HH-47 to the rescue?
This article writes about the critics and supporters view of the HH-47, winner of the U.S. Air Force CSAR-X competition.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Odds Of Bid Restart Slim
While Sikorsky's odd of overturning the decision to award Boeing the CSAR-X contract, it could still learn how the U.S. Air Force weighted certain aspects of the entries, for example, or more about the strengths and weaknesses of each other's aircraft.
These information could be useful the next time it seeks an Air Force contract.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Lockheed lodges protest to Boeing CSAR award
Lockheed Martin confirmed that it had "reluctantly" lodged a protest against the award of the CSAR-X contract to Boeing.
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
Sikorsky protests Boeing contract
Sikorsky Aircraft on Friday protested to the Government Accountability Office on the U.S. Air Force's decision to award Boeing the CSAR-X contract. Lockheed Martin is expected to follow suit on Monday.
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Why Boeing's HH-47 Chinook won the CSAR-X competition
Flight International says the HH-47 won the CSAR-X competition because Boeing convinced the USAF that the Chinook already has Block 0 capability and limited Block 10 as well.
Boeing argued that putting the terrain-following/terrain-avoidance (TF/TA) radar on their competitor's helicopters would be an expensive and time-consuming process. Its HH-47 already has the TF/TA radar due to its MH-47G lineage.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
US Air Force helicopter award set for Thursday
The U.S. Air Force is expected to announce the winner of the CSAR-X competition today at 5 p.m. EDT.
Nine analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News said the Lockheed Martin/AgustaWestland US101 and the Boeing HH-47 is more likely to win than Sikorsky's S-92.
Sources
US Air Force helicopter award set for Thursday
Sikorsky May Lose Bid for $13 Billion U.S. Helicopter Contract
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Sikorsky has hopes for rescue copter
Sikorsky believes that its HH-92 is the most current design and the most survivable among those who are competing for the CSARX program.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
Boeing CSAR-X: ULB UAV Used To Develop Combat Rescue Sensors, Team Says.
Boeing used its Unmanned Little Bird UAV to test out elements of crew 'virtual reality' system it is offering to USAF for CSAR-X.
The system uses multiple sensors, including infrared low-light level video cameras and laser radars that provided real-time, 185 degree panoramic viewing for pilots and crew.
Sources
Boeing CSAR-X: ULB UAV Used To Develop Combat Rescue Sensors, Team Says.
Boeing Synthetic Vision System Improves Visibility for Rescue Mission Pilots
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Boeing Selects Honeywell Engines for CSAR-X Program
The Boeing Company has selected Honeywell T55-GA-714A turbo shaft engines to power the HH-47 helicopter proposed for the U.S. Air Force Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) program.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
US Air Force helicopter award delayed until Sept.
The U.S. Air Force has postponed plans to award the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) till September.
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Saturday, July 01, 2006
Air Force proposes CSAR-X locations
The USAF is proposing possible locations for the combat search and rescue, or CSAR-X, aircraft.
The locations are at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.; Kulis Air National Guard Base or Elmendorf AFB, Alaska; Gabreski Airport, N.Y.; Kirtland AFB, N.M., Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif.; Moody AFB, Ga.; Nellis AFB, Nev.; Patrick AFB, Fla.; and a location yet to be determined in Europe and the Pacific region.
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Saturday, March 25, 2006
DoD reviews Air Force helicopter; said not to intervene
Pentagon's successful investment review of the U.S. Air Force CSAR-X program on Thursday has paved the way for a Defense Acquisition Board review this summer.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
US Air Force rescue helicopter plan faces review
The USAF Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) program will faces its first Pentagon investment review.
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
CSAR-X Bidders Asked About $849M Boost, Testing
The U.S. Air Force has asked bidders for the CSAR-X program to amend their proposal documents to discuss how they would spend a proposed $849 million over five years.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
Boeing Completes Demonstration Flights for Combat Search and Rescue Vehicle
Boeing has successfully completed a series of MH-47G demonstration flights for the U.S. Air Force for its bid for the Air Force Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) Program.
Conducted over three days, the exercise uses a MH-47G to represent the proposed HH-47.
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CSAR-X: Boeing’s Big Army Lifter Meeting USAF Challenges
Boeing’s CSAR-X team told reporters that the CH-47D can be disassemble in one hour 36 minutes and put together in two hours 58 minutes to meet USAF requirements.
It has 40 percent more cabin volume over rivals S-92 and EH-101.
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Thursday, November 03, 2005
Chinook hopes ride on CSAR bid
The shift in requirements of the USAF combat search and rescue (CSAR-X) program allowed Boeing's HH-47 Chinook a chance in the competition.
The lowering of the speed requirement to 135kt also forced the CV-22 out of the race.
But Boeing's late entry with the Chinook is giving the team so technical challenges. It first has to demonstrate that it can reassemble an HH-47 within 3h after being airlifted aboard a Boeing C-17 or Lockheed C-5, the current record is 3h 15min.
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
V-22 will not compete for CSAR-X
Bell-Boeing will not submit the V-22 as their proposal or the US Air Force's CSAR-X combat search and rescue competition.
Both companies feel that the requirements of the competition are more suited to a traditional helicopter.
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Friday, September 16, 2005
Two CSAR-X Competitors Make Opposite Pitches
The Bell-Boeing team emphasize that the CV-22 can travel twice as fast as a helicopter making it more suitable for the USAF search and rescue helicopter replacement program.
The HH-47 team pitch the combat experience of its helicopter over its rivals.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Boeing Announces Tandem Rotor Entry for Combat Search and Rescue Vehicle Acquisition
Boeing will offer the advanced HH-47 CSAR-X for the U.S. Air Force combat search and rescue aircraft program.
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