The team said: "We also intend to engage with the successful helicopter contractors in the periods leading up to new contracts so that we are ready for change.
The HSSG is made up of representatives from oil and gas firms, contractors, helicopter operators, offshore unions, the Health and Safety Executive HSEE) and the Civil Aviation Authority CAAA).
But officials subsequently learned that helicopters the replacement contractor, Dyncorp International, was planning to use for this service didn't meet government safety standards.
Acting as a corporate sponsor for the venture will be Sikorsky Aircraft, the helicopter maker and military contractor based in nearby Stratford, Conn.
A helicopter pilot, a renovation contractor, and a lawyer all sued González for unpaid bills.
On August 26, a UN helicopter carrying four Russian contractors was shot down near Bentiu, killing three members of its crew and severely wounding another.
An official at Yarmouk hospital, near the site of the shooting, said he saw American helicopters — flown by contractors, not soldiers — firing into the area after the two bombs in Mansour exploded.
An article in Science Times on June 7 about the hazardous-waste cleanup at the old Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado included an erroneous identification, from the cleanup contractor, for a helicopter that is to monitor radiation over the site.
Under the deal that the Obama administration scrapped, AgustaWestland had supplied the helicopters to Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor.
Pentagon officials on Friday stopped work on a costly new presidential helicopter despite efforts by the contractors and their supporters in Congress to salvage part of the project.
Executive Outcomes, a private military contractor armed with helicopters and state of the art artillery, helped change the course of the war.
