To help ensure mission readiness for the Army’s Chinook helicopter fleet, Collins Aerospace has been awarded a contract worth up to $472 million.

The announcement was made Tuesday during the Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville.

The Army contract is to provide engineering services that support the modernization and sustainment of the CH‑47 Chinook fleet.

The engineering services will deliver avionics upgrades that help integrate capabilities more efficiently, address obsolescence and strengthen the aircraft’s avionics architecture to support continued mission readiness in a rapidly evolving operational environment, the company said.

“Collins equips the Chinook with advanced avionics that integrates communication, navigation and mission subsystems into a flexible, interoperable cockpit built for today’s operational demands,” said Jenny Miller, vice president and general manager of Vision and Sensing Systems at Collins Aerospace. “Our longstanding avionics partnership with the U.S. Army ensures the fleet continuously evolves to support the warfighter and meet future operational demands.”

The award supports greater platform commonality across the Army’s aviation enterprise by advancing open, reusable avionics architectures that can be integrated across multiple aircraft. The approach helps streamline technology insertion, reduce integration complexity and drive cost and schedule efficiencies as the Army modernizes its fleet.

Work on the contract will be performed in Huntsville and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, provides advanced aerospace and defense solutions across avionics, aircraft interiors, aerostructures and engine components, mission systems, and power and control systems.