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Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing Selects Collins Aerospace Seating, Perigon™ Computer for DEFIANT X® Helicopter
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing recently selected Collins Aerospace to provide all three seating platforms and its Perigon™ computer for the DEFIANT X advanced utility helicopter, a finalist for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition.
Collins will supply the DEFIANT X helicopter with armored pilot and copilot, cabin crew and troop seats. Each Collins seating product will be lightweight, ergonomically designed for comfort, and rigorously tested to meet or exceed the Army’s stringent crashworthiness requirements. A longtime global leader in seating for civil aerospace applications, Collins has missionized its industry-leading commercial technology to create differentiated rotary-wing military seating solutions to drastically improve warfighter comfort and readiness.
“Our suite of military seating is designed, engineered and manufactured to deliver optimal value to our customers and to best support warfighter safety and comfort,” said Cynthia Muklevicz, vice president of business development for Interiors at Collins Aerospace. “Collins’ rotary-wing military seating solutions offer a generational advancement over current technology in use today that we expect to significantly reduce operator fatigue and improve mission effectiveness and success.”
In addition to seating, Collins will also supply its Perigon computer for DEFIANT X. With a modular open systems approach (MOSA) and the ability to provide 20 times the processing power of Collins’ existing flight control computers, Perigon will enable future flight control and vehicle management capabilities for next-generation aircraft.
“Perigon’s enhanced processing power will allow it to integrate numerous DEFIANT X functions, including flight control, utility management, prognostic health and advanced flight modes such as autonomy,” said Kim Kinsley, vice president and general manager, Environmental and Airframe Control Systems for Collins Aerospace. “By using a single computer to support a multitude of functions, Perigon will help reduce the number of computers onboard the aircraft, thus reducing weight, volume and power consumption across the platform while enabling enhanced performance.”
MD Helicopters Presents “Excellence” Award to Precision Aviation Group
Precision Aviation Group, Inc. (PAG) was recently recognized by MD Helicopters during the manufacturer’s Authorized Service Center briefing event with the “Excellence” award. The annual awards program, held during the Heli-Expo show, recognizes authorized MD Helicopter service centers’ performance and level of customer support for the previous year.
2022 marked the second consecutive year that PAG has received the MD Helicopter “Excellence” award.
“PAG is proud to receive the prestigious Excellence Award,” said Ketan Desai, PAG’s chief sales & marketing officer. “The caliber of MD Helicopter service centers and distributors globally is strong, so it is incredibly rewarding to be recognized as the leader for the second consecutive year. With more than 3,000 aircraft currently in service around the world, we are uniquely positioned – utilizing our 22 global locations and more than 650,000 square feet of sales and MRO facilities to support operators. Our commitment to stock parts locally and provide the highest level of service has delivered extraordinary results.”
The 2022 “Excellence” award represents PAG’s commitment and approach to serving its global “mission-critical” customer base, in addition to the strong revenue growth YOY.
“Authorized aervice centers and distributors like Precision Aviation Group are an extension of MD Helicopters that deliver invaluable customer service,” says Nick Nenadovic, vice president, Aftermarket and Customer Support at MD Helicopters. “It is an honor to work with and recognize PAG and their achievements as well as acknowledge their continuous efforts that keep our customers flying.”
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