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Rotary Wing Upgrades and Sustainment
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Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $270.4M |
| FY25 | $214.6M |
| FY26 | $189.1M |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $209.8M | $224.1M | $270.4M | ||
| Enacted | – | $223.1M | $261.0M | $214.6M | |
| Request | – | – | $261.0M | $220.3M | $189.1M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $261.0M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $270.4M as actual total obligation authority — $9.35M above the request. 270.4 − 261.0 = 9.4 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — ROTARY WING UPGRADES AND SUSTAINMENT
This P-1 Line Item provides ongoing reliability, maintainability, spares, equipment, weapons, and upgrades for fielded rotary wing aircraft and subsystems. These include: A/MH-6 Low Cost Modifications (LCM); A/MH-6 Block Upgrades; MH-47 Block Upgrades; MH-47 LCM; MH-60 LCM; Improved Rotary Wing Electro-Optical Sensor (IRES); Simulator Block Upgrades (SBUD); Commercial Spares; Special Operations Forces (SOF) Common Terrain Following/Terrain Avoidance (TF/TA) Silent Knight Radar (SKR) or AN/APQ-187; Mission Processor Upgrade (MPU); and MH-60M Block Upgrades. SOF provides organic aviation support for worldwide contingency operations and low-intensity conflicts. The specialized aircraft for these missions must be capable of worldwide rapid deployment and operations in contested or anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments in support of Multi-Domain Operations. These aircraft must also be capable of operating at extended ranges under adverse weather conditions to infiltrate, provide logistics for, reinforce, and extract SOF. These capabilities will be pursued via rapid fielding techniques when appropriate. ELEMENT FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026 Unclassified $163.915 $140.298 $115.101 Classified $106.450 $74.263 $73.958 TOTAL $270.366 $214.561 $189.059
Justification
Justification — ROTARY WING UPGRADES AND SUSTAINMENT
1. The A/MH-6, Program Number 828, LCM include modifications to the A/MH-6 application of Commercial Engine Bulletins and Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness directives, SO-peculiar (p) Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), spares, and minor modifications to SO-p equipment to improve reliability and maintainability, correct deficiencies, address obsolescence, and incorporate mission critical capabilities. The A/MH-6 aircraft is the USSOCOM's only urban attack and assault platform and provides reconnaissance, close air support (CAS), precision strike, infiltration (infil), exfiltration (exfil), and resupply of SOF teams in hostile, denied, and politically sensitive areas that allows the Joint Force to be more agile and responsive to combat missions, Irregular Warfare and MOOTW. The A/MH-6 program has been designated a Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive 5135.02, the guidance in DoD Instruction 5000.85. The A/MH-6M is an ACAT III program in Full Rate Production. FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Funds various hardware (includes modifications to the lightweight planks and lightweight auxiliary fuel tank) and software solutions to improve reliability and maintainability, correct deficiencies, address obsolescence, and incorporate mission critical capabilities. 2. The MH-47, Program Number 830, LCM includes the Army ECP modifications due to the unique configuration of SOF aircraft, SO-p ECPs, spares, and minor modifications to SO-p equipment is required to improve reliability and maintainability, correct deficiencies, address obsolescence, and incorporate mission critical capabilities. The MH-47G aircraft is the USSOCOM's only heavy assault platform and provides long-range, high speed, all weather, and resupply of SOF teams in hostile, denied, and politically sensitive areas that allows the Joint Force to be more agile and responsive to combat missions, Irregular Warfare and Military Operations Other than War (MOOTW). The MH-47 program has been designated a Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive 5135.02, the guidance in DoD Instruction 5000.85. The MH-47 is an ACAT II program in Full Rate Production. FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Funds various hardware (includes modifications to the shipboard tiedowns and antennas) and software solutions to improve reliability and maintainability, correct deficiencies, address obsolescence, and incorporate mission critical capabilities. 3. The MH-60, Program Number 827, Low-Cost Modifications (LCM) include modifications to the MH-60 to provide mission payload, greater range, SOF-p Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), spares, and minor modifications to SOF-p equipment to improve reliability and maintainability, correct deficiencies, address obsolescence, and incorporate mission critical capabilities including improvements over the enduring MH-60M fleet. This program supports modifications that are mission unique and time-sensitive. The MH-60M aircraft provides long-range, high speed, all weather, and resupply of SOF teams in hostile, denied, and politically sensitive areas that allows the Joint Force to be more agile and responsive to combat missions, Irregular Warfare and Military Operations Other than War (MOOTW). The MH-60 program has been designated a Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive 5135.02, the guidance in DoD Instruction 5000.85. The MH-60 is an ACAT II program in Full Rate Production. FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Funds various hardware [modifications to the engine barrier filter, miniguns, and Fast Rope Insertion/Extraction System (FRIES) fast rope bar] and software solutions to improve reliability and maintainability, correct deficiencies, address obsolescence, and incorporate mission critical capabilities. 4. The Simulator Block Upgrades (SBUD), Program Number 829, program procures hardware and software updates for six high fidelity special mission aircraft flight simulators for the MH-47, MH-60, A/MH-6, and related peripheral training devices. The simulator updates provide aviators the ability to train in the exact same helicopter configuration that the unit has on the flight line, ensuring no negative habits develop through training on the simulators. The SBUD ensures realistic full-spectrum training and mission rehearsal capabilities that reduce risk for complex mission sets; reduce overall cost; create positive training habits; and safely recreates the stresses of live training. These training devices have the highest utilization rate across the Army Aviation enterprise, ensuring the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (160th SOAR) meets their aviator throughput requirement by maximizing resources required to attain aircraft and mission critical capabilities proficiency. Future hardware delivery orders will be aligned to emerging platform concurrency and integration requirements. The SBUD program provides critical skill training for basic to advanced air crews in challenging profiles to prepare them for long-range, high speed, all weather, CAS, precision strike, reconnaissance, infil, exfil, and resupply missions. Planners can create full mission profile training scenarios that can be used by individual crews, linked training with multi-ship of same or different aircraft and can include ground force for full immersement. The simulators provide scenarios for pilots in extreme conditions (malfunctions/loss of engine) that cannot be practiced in the aircraft. The simulators are also utilized in conjunction with the aircraft's flight data recorder (black box) for accident investigations to replicate conditions of accidents. Training missions can be reviewed after mission completion to determine areas of focus for combat missions, Irregular Warfare and MOOTW. The SBUD program has been designated a MCA in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive 5135.02, the guidance in DoD Instruction 5000.8. The SBUD is an ACAT III program in Full Rate Production. FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Funds procurement of one MH-47 simulator. Continues modifying simulator's hardware and software to match aircraft modifications and improvements as they are fielded. Simulator concurrency is time sensitive. Funds environment simulation modifications and Mission Rehearsal Exercise Training System (MRETS) upgrades and obsolescence necessary to represent real world changes in threat. 5. Commercial Spares provides replenishment and sparing of SO-p mission equipment components for Army Special Operations Aviation (ARSOA) spare parts greater than the $350,000 Operation and Maintenance (O&M) individual item purchase threshold. Provides for in-service replacement of items damaged beyond economical repair. FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Procures repair and spare parts over $350,000. 6. Classified Program details will be provided under separate cover.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY24 Actuals | $270.4M |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY25 Enacted | $214.6M |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY26 Disc. Request | $189.1M |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | SOCOM | FY26 Total | $189.1M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $4.04B | $270.4M | $214.6M | $189.1M | $189.1M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| PA-05 | $1.54B |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| THE BOEING COMPANY | H9224119D0002 | high |
| THE BOEING COMPANY | H9224119F0091 | high |
| THE BOEING COMPANY | H9224120F0020 | high |
| THE BOEING COMPANY | H9224122F0073 | high |
| THE BOEING COMPANY | W9121516G0001 | high |
| WESCAM USA, INC. | H9224121D0001 | high |
| THE BOEING COMPANY | H9224118F0022 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Rotary Wing Upgrades and Sustainment. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1139
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1107
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1154
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.