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HH-60W Cabin Reconfiguration
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The contract pertains to the HH-60W AV, a multi-engine rotary wing aircraft designed primarily for worldwide Personnel Recovery and Combat Search and Rescue missions under all conflict intensities and peacetime. The HH-60W is capable of rapid deployment and versatile operations in diverse and challenging environments, including all weather conditions and threat levels, such as nuclear, biological, and chemical scenarios. The current initiative focuses on integrating an Air Force District of Washington (AFDW) capability into the aircraft, requiring compatibility with existing HH-60W systems like sensors, displays, navigation, and flight management without causing detrimental increases in operating weight. Specifically, the contract seeks to modify the HH-60W cabin to support the AFDW mission by removing certain baseline components and installing passenger seating for 11 occupants. These seats must comply with crashworthiness, safety standards, and allow for emergency egress. The solicitation, titled "HH-60W Cabin Reconfiguration," is issued by the Department of Defense’s Helicopter Program Office at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, with a response deadline in late May 2026. This sources-sought notice is aimed at identifying potential sources capable of managing these modifications while ensuring the HH-60W retains its mission effectiveness and weight parameters.
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Dayton, OH, USASet-Aside
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Submission Closed
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The HH-60W AV is a multi-engine, rotary wing aircraft with a primary mission of worldwide Personnel Recovery (PR)/Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) in all intensities of conflict and in peacetime. The HH-60W will rapidly deploy and is capable of operations from main and austere field basing to conduct missions in all environmental regions of the globe, day or night, in adverse weather, and in all threat conditions, to include passing through nuclear, biological, and chemical environments.
The Helicopter Division (HD) is conducting planning in support of a new contract vehicle to address integration of an AFDW capability into the HH-60W weapon system. The systems and all system components must be compatible and integrate with existing HH-60W sensor, display, navigation, and flight management systems and net system weight should not result in a mission degrading increase in aircraft operating weight.
The HH-60W requires a modification to support the Air Force District of Washington (AFDW) mission. The AF will remove several components from the baseline HH-60W to allow for the installation of passenger seats for AFDW. Seating is required for 11 passengers. Seating must meet applicable crash and safety requirements including emergency egress.
