Thread regarding Sikorsky Aircraft layoffs

Even Sikorsky Welfare has its limits. Need to get back to the practices of Capitalism and stop social welfare

Another round of layoffs no head count was shared it seems a mass layoff

The FARA contract lasts until September. So five more months.

Another round incoming after the FARA decision?

FARA is cancelled, but things seemed to be going that way. The death of X2 platforms will reduce engineering jobs, although the Army says they will buy more Black Hawks. Adopting a high low strategy, higher performing tilt rotors, combined with the much more affordable Black Hawk. Overall employment should be stable.

soon ct will close and move down south

Supposedly everyone was notified Tues and Wed. I know of direct and indirect charging getting hit in Supply Chain.

I was lucky this time, but in another five months when there's another Paul Lemmo email that begins "Unfortunately" I will probably be gone.

Yes

so did layoffs start?

Notice is 250 Salaried employee to be laid off.

Hourly retirement offering was moved forward , further reducing employee head count

Future Test programs are limited and some production programs have been scaled back.

anyone knows which areas/group are affected?

"no longer require the same level of development support"
Translated: fire engineers
Wait until FARA gets cancelled

Sikirosky will lay off 179 employees the company announced Tuesday.

A company spokesperson said they were making reductions within the Sikorsky business segment.

“Several major programs are progressing into production and no longer require the same level of development support. In addition, ongoing material shortages are impacting our cost-competitiveness," said the spokesperson in a statement. 'This was a difficult decision to make, and we intend to retain as many people as possible to fill our open business-critical positions that are required to support urgent national security missions. Sikorsky is taking these actions to ensure cost-competitiveness in the future.”

In March, the company started laying off some employees from its plant in Stratford and these cutbacks are attributed to the company’s loss of a multi-million-dollar U.S. Army contract.

That reduction was part of a previously announced elimination of 800 jobs in the Rotary and Mission Systems division at Lockheed Martin.

The company was recently awarded a $650 million contract to upgrade the HH-60 helicopter for the U.S. Air Force.

In August, the U.S. Navy awarded Sikorsky a $2.7 billion contract to build 35 additional CH-53K helicopters.

This agreement includes 27 U.S. Marine Corps aircraft and eight aircraft for Israeli defense forces.

Sikorsky will begin delivering these aircraft in 2026.

in April, Sikorsky lost a round in its battle to regain the contract to build helicopters for the U.S. Army.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied the company's protest of the Army's decision and said in a report the Army had "reasonably evaluated" the Connecticut-based company's proposal for building the aircraft.

Sikorsky and Boeing protested the U.S. Army’s decision to replace its UH-Black Hawk with a new aircraft by Textron-owned company Bell.

The companies filed a complaint with the GAO to review the Army’s decision on the Future Long-Range As--ult Aircraft contract.