BERWYN,
Pa., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triumph
Group, Inc., (TRIUMPH) [NYSE:TGI]
recently announced that its Systems, Electronics and Controls
business in West Hartford,
Connecticut has received a contract from the Defense
Logistics Agency to support the U.S. Army on Enhanced Digital
Electronic Control Units (EDECUs) for the UH-60 Black Hawk and
AH-64 Apache fleets. The EDECU is a flight critical computer with
operating and application specific software that optimizes engine
operation, performance, and efficiency.
This order is part of a five-year contract to complete the
upgrade of approximately 3,100 digital electronic control units on
the two fleets. More than 2,000 EDECU orders will be filled through
2022 to satisfy the upgrade requirement for the highly utilized
Black Hawk and Apache fleets, as part of this latest contract.
Since 2013, TRIUMPH has
provided more than 7,000 EDECUs for the Apache, Black Hawk, Jayhawk
and Seahawk aircraft fleets for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and U.S.
Coast Guard. TRIUMPH will partner
with military fleet logistics providers to facilitate the upgrades
of the remaining EDECUs in the field.
"TRIUMPH is proud to provide
the latest P09 upgrade EDECU which further improves safety and
reliability throughout the flight envelope. The P09 version
of the Enhanced Digital Engine Control Units for T700 series
engines is used across multiple military helicopter platforms,"
said Justin Wolfanger, President of TRIUMPH Systems, Electronics &
Controls. "This award demonstrates the confidence the US
military has in TRIUMPH to be the
engine controls partner of choice for their helicopter fleets."
In addition to the U.S. Army T700 EDECU, the company also
provides electronic engine controls for the UH-60 Blackhawk, HH-60
Pave Hawk, MH-60 Jayhawk, SH-60 Seahawk, Apache AH-64 and Chinook
CH-47.
With locations in Windsor and
West Hartford, Connecticut and
Forest, Ohio, TRIUMPH Systems, Electronics and Controls
specializes in design, development, certification, manufacture and
repair of fuel pumps, fuel metering units, fuel controls and
electronic engine control systems for helicopters and fixed-wing
aircraft servicing military, commercial, regional, and business jet
market sectors.
TRIUMPH, headquartered in
Berwyn, Pennsylvania, designs,
engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a broad portfolio
of aerospace and defense systems and components. The company serves
the global aviation industry, including original equipment
manufacturers and the full spectrum of military and commercial
aircraft operators.
More information about TRIUMPH
can be found on the company's website at www.triumphgroup.com.
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SOURCE Triumph Group