The US101 team, led by Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, N.Y., released a statement yesterday following the Air Force’s clarification of its plan to issue a revised request for proposals, saying it’s entrant for the combat search and rescue helicopter replacement program would be “at least $3 billion less expensive” than the original CSAR-X award winner, Boeing’s HH-47. In its statement, Team US101 called “a full and open recompetition” the “most appropriate path forward” and vowed to help USAF field the CSAR-X as soon as possible. The statement said, “We remain committed to meeting the program’s original [initial operational capability] date of September 2012.”
House, Senate Unveil Competing Proposals for 2026 Budget
July 11, 2025
Lawmakers from the House and Senate laid out competing versions of the annual defense policy bill on July 11, with vastly different potential outcomes for some of the Air Force’s most embattled programs.