UH-72 LAKOTA LIGHT UTILITY… (BLI 4742A05001) · Army

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What it is

UH-72 LAKOTA LIGHT UTILITY HELICOPTER (4742A05001) is an Army procurement line funded in the Aircraft Procurement, Army account.

What changed

No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.

Who gets it

No single contractor is published as this line's leader. 2 linked award records are listed below. 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. Why the crosswalk is partial.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$10.0MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

$10.0MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

Not in the FY2026 J-books we ingested

FY25→26 Change

No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

No FY2026 R-1/P-1 request line for this program element. The FY2026 President's Budget request workbook carries no FY2026 line for it; its last workbook figure is FY2025. An absent line is not by itself an ending — PB2026 renumbered program elements at scale across the services and defense agencies, so this work may continue under a different number. No successor is linked for this line: this site's program-lineage layer holds no keyed edge pointing forward from here. That is an absence in this site's lineage layer, not a finding about the program: if the J-book narrative on this page describes a realignment, it is quoted below in the document's own words, and this note does not restate it.

Data coverage

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

The program's 2 summary figures for FY24 to FY25, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends level with where it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$10.0M
FY25	$10.0M

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

2 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2024–FY2025): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line is too short to show a direction. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
Series	FY24	FY25
Actuals	$10.0M
Enacted	–	$10.0M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

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 — UH-72 LAKOTA LIGHT UTILITY HELICOPTER

The UH-72 platform will provide the flexibility to respond to Homeland Security (HLS) requirements, conduct civil search and rescue operations, support damage assessment, support test and training centers, perform generating force missions, augment the HH-60 Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) aircraft, and provide support to CONUS counterdrug operations. The UH-72 will conduct general support utility helicopter missions and execute tasks as part of an integrated effort with other joint services, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The UH-72 provides time-sensitive transport of supplies or key personnel, air mobility to assist civil authorities through the execution of search and rescue or disaster relief operations, advanced warning/detection of external threats to include threats to our borders, augmentation of air ambulance capabilities, and limited command and control operations in the conduct of HLS. As part of the Aviation Restructure Initiative (ARI) the UH-72 became the primary training aircraft at the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE) in Ft Novosel.

Justification

Justification — UH-72 LAKOTA LIGHT UTILITY HELICOPTER

Helicopter, Light Utility (LUH) has no FY 2026 funding request.

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit P-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Aircraft Procurement, Army	A	FY24 Actuals	$10.0M
Aircraft Procurement, Army	A	FY25 Enacted	$10.0M

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
Program Element	$3.20B	$10.0M	$10.0M

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 program's money traced left to right: the A appropriation, program element 4742A05001 (UH-72 LAKOTA LIGHT UTILITY HELICOPTER), its 2 largest high-confidence awards, the 1 recipient family behind them, and the 2 congressional districts the work is recorded in. Read it for concentration — how few families and districts the awards run through. Amounts inside the diagram are illustrative per-award transaction sums; the table below carries the cited per-district obligations.

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.

The diagram as text: one row per congressional district in the diagram, the recipient families shown there, and that district's cited program obligations.
District	Recipients in diagram	Program obligations
TX-30	AIRBUS HELICOPTERS, INC.	$488.3M
MS-01	AIRBUS HELICOPTERS, INC.	$29.0M

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
AIRBUS HELICOPTERS, INC.	W58RGZ18C0007	high
AIRBUS US SPACE & DEFENSE INC	W58RGZ22C0022	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

10 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONALUTILITY|HELICOPTER2026matched 2+ title words

Issues related to energy efficiency in commercial and residential buildings, and advanced building controls Issues…

View filing →lda.senate.gov ↗

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONALUTILITY|HELICOPTER2026matched 2+ title words

Issues related to energy efficiency in commercial and residential buildings, and advanced building controls Issues…

View filing →lda.senate.gov ↗

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONALLIGHT|UTILITY|HELICOPTER2025matched 2+ title words