Lockheed Martin Australia has grown its Black Hawk helicopters sustainment industrial base to more than 200 strong workforce, embedded across Holsworthy, Brisbane, and Oakey in support of maximising the Australian Army’s UH-60M Black Hawk fleet availability.
“I commend the Australian Army on consistently delivering a high rate of effort for its UH-60M Black Hawk program,” Lockheed Martin Australia’s Program Director and General Manager Rotary and Mission Systems, Kendell Kuczma, said.
“Lockheed Martin Australia is proud to be an integral partner of the Black Hawk sustainment enterprise. Our priority is to provide dependable, rapid, and cost-effective sustainment support to the Australian Army to ensure the aircraft is ready when Army needs it.”
As the Australian Army’s industry partner providing integrated support services to the Black Hawks, Lockheed Martin Australia’s workforce has been providing fundamental through-life sustainment support to the UH-60M fleet.
“We are proud to have delivered more than 200 jobs supporting industrial sustainment capability for the Black Hawk program. Our team on the ground derive a real sense of purpose from contributing to the integrated sustainment effort across all three sites,” Lockheed Martin Australia’s Black Hawk Program Manager, Rodahn Gibbon, stated.
“Further job growth is anticipated across the program. I encourage maintenance engineers, logisticians, and aviation specialists to visit our careers site to learn about the exciting careers available for Black Hawk helicopters.”
Since the Australian Army swiftly achieved initial operating capability for the UH-60M Black Hawks in 2024, Army’s fleet has now grown to 19 and surpassed 5,000 flying hours milestone.
In Sydney, Lockheed Martin Australia’s Black Hawk logisticians have processed over 75,000 service transactions at the Black Hawk logistics warehouse to-date to aid the Australia Army’s Black Hawk operations.
In Oakey, Lockheed Martin Australia’s training specialists are working with Army to qualify and upskill pilots and aviation crew for the UH-60Ms, with training courses increasing commensurate with the expanding fleet.
On a global scale, Sikorsky is dedicated to modernising the Black Hawk for soldiers who will rely on Black Hawk helicopters into the 2070s.
Sikorsky is fielding new technology today—including an autonomous system, Black Hawk airframe enhancements and inclusions of a digital backbone capability to allow for rapid unmanned aerial systems integration. These technologies will lead to improved capability of a modernised Black Hawk for the Indo-Pacific region and allied partners world-wide.