CH-47 Chinook Helicopter

The CH-47 Chinook Helicopter program is a major Department of Defense acquisition program focused on the procurement, maintenance, and enhancement of the CH-47 Chinook rotary-wing aircraft platform. The program encompasses multiple aspects of the platform's lifecycle, including airframe modifications, engine upgrades, research and development, and systems integration efforts. Based on the contract history spanning from 1983 to 2008, this represents a sustained, long-term acquisition program supporting one of the military's primary heavy-lift helicopter platforms.

The program's contract awards have ranged from approximately $17,000 to over $9 million, with work performed by major defense contractors including Honeywell International, Texas Instruments, Raytheon Optical Systems, and Westwind Technologies. Contract vehicles predominantly utilize Definitive Contracts and Delivery Orders with Firm Fixed Price, Cost Plus Fixed Fee, and Time and Materials pricing arrangements. The majority of awards were administered through the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, U.S. Army Industrial Operations, and U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. Primary places of performance included Huntsville, Alabama; Dallas, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona. The contracted work spans multiple categories including Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) services, aircraft engine components, airframe modifications, and electronics integration. Most contracts were awarded without set-aside designations, though the data includes one Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award.