Fort Eustis, VA, March 19, 2026 – The U.S. Army received the first UH-60MX Black Hawk autonomous helicopter, extensively modified to fly with or without a pilot at the controls. This next-generation «Optimally Piloted Vehicle»…
CAMP GRAYLING, Michigan. October 30, 2025 — For the first time, a U.S. soldier —not a trained aviator— planned and executed real-world operations in military exercises with the Sikorsky Optionally Piloted (OPV) Black Hawk helicopter,…
Washington, Oct. 13, 2025 — From concept to reality in 10 months, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has transformed a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter into the S-70UAS U-Hawk, a versatile autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that has…
Story by Crista Mary Mack, 633d Air Base Wing, Joint Base Langley-Eustis JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Virginia – The U.S. Army is testing an in-flight life-saving system for incapacitated helicopter pilots using onboard automated system that…
Hesperia, California, May 1, 2025 — Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company and Rain, a leader in the emerging firetech industry, demonstrated and tested autonomous firefighting techniques on both propane and burning brush piles using Sikorsky’s optionally…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2024 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has received a $6 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to install the company’s ALIAS / MATRIX™ flight autonomy system onto the U.S.…
ATLANTA, March 2023 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as…
Fort Campbell — DARPA and Sikorsky MATRIX technology perform the first autonomous flight S-70 Black Hawk Equipped with ALIAS (Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System). Sitting on the runway in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, one of Sikorsky’s…