Contract Awarded For Four MH-47G Helicopters By The Department of Defense

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded an $80,729,096.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to Boeing for four new build MH-47G rotary wing aircraft.  

This action is required to satisfy an urgent need to sustain U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) heavy assault, rotary wing aircraft and to mitigate the impact of the MH-47G aircraft availability in light of increased SOF operational demands.  

This delivery order is a non-competitive award, according to the contract award notice posted by the DoD.  Fiscal 2018 procurement funds in the amount of $33,729,096; and fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement, Army (APA) funds in the amount of $47,000,000 shall be obligated at time of award.  A majority of the work will be performed in Ridley Park, PA.  

U.S. Special Operations Command, Tampa, Florida, is the contracting activity.

The MH-47G is a special operations variant of the CH-47. The first example was delivered to the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command in September 2014. It is used in multiple heavy-lift missions such as transportation of personnel, ammunition, vehicles, fuel and other supplies, as well as for humanitarian relief flights.

(Source: U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Army image)

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