I met with everyone from hourly employees up to my leadership team, mostly remote. I have done a few in-person engagements. This year, walking the line, obviously, that was one of the first things I wanted to do, and get out and get a feel for the business and our employee base [in Stratford, Connecticut].
The commandant of the Marine Corps was up here. We had the vice commandant of the Coast Guard. I was also able to head down to Huntsville, Alabama, recently for our flight demonstration [of the S Raider].
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin. What about your new job appeals to you? One of the things that I really liked about Sikorsky is the heritage.
We are booming right now with the ramp up in the CHK production line and the Combat Rescue Helicopter production line. And Black Hawk is still humming along. I believe Sikorsky is one of the leaders in the corporation in digital transformation. So a lot of investment going on there. What are your near-term priorities? My No. So No. Those are the focus because of the state they are in now.
Second is FVL. Future vertical lift is our future. And FVL is super critical to our future. The next thing is really the continuation of our digital transformation at Sikorsky. Those are probably the top three priorities.
And so we see a large market space out there for the Black Hawk, essentially either as a foreign military sale or the commercial version. We see a big, big opportunity there.
S is our offering there, and there are a lot of international competitors on that. The other big international market is for the CHK. So we had the big win in Israel — that was very significant. Germany has been up and down on that acquisition. The offerings differ. When it comes to everything but the airframe, the mission systems, the avionics, the Army absolutely is looking for commonality. In my discussions, they would love to see something that could be potentially brought back to their legacy fleet, their enduring fleet — or if they had a modernization program in the enduring fleet.
Certainly we — from the beginning with the X2 aircraft — had this vision of scalability so that while the exact part may not be common, the technology is absolutely common. If you have Raider at 12, pounds versus Defiant at 33, pounds, you fly them the same way, you maintain them very similarly, and you get that commonality and that similarity for the pilots and maintainers, the trainers, etc.
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