Sikorsky is working with NAVAIR and the USMC to deliver a new build heavy lift helicopter, the CH-53K. This is a digital aircraft, unlike its predecessor the CH-53E which is a mechanical aircraft. What this means is that the aircraft is digitally designed, manufactured by a digital thread production process, provides operational data for the … Continue reading Digital Thread Design, Production and Sustainment: Shaping a 21st Century Build and Modernization Process