{"id":61415,"date":"2020-05-14T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/05\/14\/government-watchdog-rejects-airbus-protest-over-us-navy-training-helicopter-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:33:26","slug":"government-watchdog-rejects-airbus-protest-over-us-navy-training-helicopter-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2020\/05\/14\/government-watchdog-rejects-airbus-protest-over-us-navy-training-helicopter-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Government watchdog rejects Airbus protest over helicopter contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2020\/01\/29\/leonardo-buys-swiss-helicopter-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo<\/a> has restarted work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/surface-navy-association\/2020\/01\/14\/leonardo-wins-contract-to-replace-us-navys-th-57-training-helicopter\/\">U.S. Navy\u2019s new training helicopter<\/a> after its competitor\u2019s protest of the contract was rejected by the Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airbus, which lost the competition in January, protested the award of the TH-73 that is slated to replace the Navy\u2019s aged TH-57 Sea Ranger fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/navy-league\/2018\/04\/11\/major-players-pitch-solutions-for-navys-next-training-helicopter\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/16_bell.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Major players pitch solutions for Navy\u2019s next training helicopter<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">As the Navy nears a competition for a new rotary-wing trainer, several companies are coming out with ready-to-go solutions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn Tuesday, the GAO denied the protest of the Navy\u2019s contract award of the Advanced Helicopter Training System (AHTS) program to Leonardo,\u201d Leonardo said in a statement. \u201cAs a result, Leonardo has immediately resumed work on AHTS in Philadelphia, readying the next generation of U.S. Naval Aviators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contract, which is going through Leonardo\u2019s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based AugustaWestland facility, is valued at about $648 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first part of the contract was for $176.5 million and covered the first 32 helicopters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo has restarted work on the U.S. Navy&#8217;s new training helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":82961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,11,12,16,36,48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3361],"class_list":["post-61415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-global","category-industry","category-naval","category-newsletters","category-the-americas"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"KRQXXZTOLVAXLPY2N3ZCMR3G64","arc_canonical_url":"\/naval\/2020\/05\/14\/government-watchdog-rejects-airbus-protest-over-us-navy-training-helicopter-contract\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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