WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Sikorsky was awarded a more than $3.7-billion contract to manufacture Black Hawk helicopters for Saudi Arabia and provide engineering support services, the US Department of Defense announced in a press release.
"Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $3,767,831,006 firm-fixed-price foreign military sales (Saudi Arabia) contract for a Black Hawk multi-year production effort," the release said on Friday. "[The contract is] to include associated services for program system management, engineering, technical data and publications."