Sikorsky awarded contract to continue T901 engine integration with Black Hawk
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On Thursday, July 30, 2026, the US Army Contracting Command (ACC) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, acting on behalf of the US Department of Defense, awarded Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, part of Lockheed Martin, a 49,929,599 USD contract to continue integrating new General Electric T901-GE-900 turboshaft engines, designated GE3000 by the manufacturer, with UH/HH-60M Black Hawk multirole helicopters as part of the broader Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP). General Electric T901-GE-900 / Photo: US Army The modification increases the contract's cumulative nominal value to 137,968,024 USD. Work will be performed at Sikorsky's facilities in Stratford, Connecticut, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2030. Fiscal year 2026 research, development, test, and evaluation funds covering the full value of the modification were obligated at the time of the award. Testing of the T901-GE-900 as a replacement for the T700-701C-series engines used in US Army H-60 Black Hawk-family helicopters has been underway since January 2025, when a pair of engines was integrated with a UH-60M. Acceptance of the engines for testing was approved on June 27, 2024, as announced by manufacturer GE Aerospace. They were delivered to the Sikorsky Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Earlier, in October 2023, GE Aerospace delivered the first two engines in prototype configuration. In...
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