Follow-On Contract Worth $1.4 Billion
The Maritime Helicopter Support Company, a joint venture of
Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has received a
$1.4 billion firm fixed price contract from the U.S. Navy to
continue providing performance-based logistics support for more
than 490 in-service H-60 Seahawk helicopters.
MH-60 Seahawk
The contract requires the Maritime Helicopter Support Company
(MHSCo) to manage the supply chain and provide as-needed repair of
more than 1,250 aircraft components and subsystems for the Navy's
H-60 Tip-to-Tail performance-based logistics (PBL) program.
Supported aircraft include Navy SH-60B, SH-60F, HH-60H, MH-60R and
MH-60S helicopters, Coast Guard HH-60J helicopters and other H-60
aircraft operated by customers of the Navy's Foreign Military Sales
program.
Sikorsky's aftermarket support company Sikorsky Aerospace
Services, Shelton, Conn., and Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and
Sensors, Owego, NY, will fulfill the contract through January 31,
2015. The H-60 Tip-to-Tail PBL program will enable the Navy/MHSCo
team to continue the accomplishments achieved under the initial
five-year contract awarded in January 2004. Today, the program is
among the largest of its kind for a fully functional aircraft
fleet.
"H-60 Tip-to-Tail is recognized as one of the U.S. Navy's most
successful PBL programs," said RADM Raymond Berube, commander,
Naval Inventory Control Point in Philadelphia, which procures,
manages, and supplies spare parts for naval aircraft, submarines
and ships worldwide. "By meeting the Navy's rigorous on-time parts
delivery requirements, MHSCo has set a high standard of support
that has had a very positive effect on H-60 flight operations."
Performance-based logistics programs incentivize the contractor
to meet measurable performance goals as the criteria for payment.
In 2004, by applying commercial best practices across the supply
chain, MHSCo quickly boosted delivery of replacement parts and
assemblies to the fleet by 25 percent.
"Over the past seven years, MHSCo has consistently exceeded
contract requirements, and enhanced the customer's fleet readiness,
by improving the availability and reliability of H-60 materiel and
providing effective inventory control and materiel obsolescence
management," said David Adler, president of Sikorsky Aerospace
Services. "This follow-on contract will enable MHSCo to continue to
provide the maximum value and the highest service levels to the
U.S. Government, the taxpayer and the warfighter."
"Last September, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked industry
to reduce lifecycle costs and improve performance," said Dan
Schultz, vice president and general manager, Lockheed Martin Ship
& Aviation Systems. "Through MHSCo, our two companies have
shown that performance based logistics, properly implemented, can
achieve those goals."
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