# UH-60 Medium Lift Helicopter

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Procurement, Construction, and Improvements  
**Source document:** Customs and Border Protection · p. 8  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/uh-60-medium-lift-helicopter  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 18.5 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 18.5 |
| FY2027 | request | 16.9 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The UH-60 Medium Lift Helicopter (MLH) is a turbo-shaft twin engine helicopter that is designed to carry a crew of four, and a fully equipped team of 11 agents and for the robust capabilities required for border interdiction and life-saving missions in hostile environments, including high-altitude desert, open water, and extreme cold. Replacing the aging, non-standardized legacy airframes with modern configurations will reduce maintenance The FY 2027 Budget includes $16.9M to fund one MLH in a modern configuration. CBP is modernizing its MLH fleet in support of the Administration's January 2025 Executive Order, Executive Order 14165 - Securing Our Borders. DHS has an approved requirement for 35 MLH aircraft and of these, 10 have been delivered. Both the FY 2025 Full-Year CR and the Working Families Tax Cut Act (Pub. Law 119-21) funded two replacements each and the FY 2026 Annualized CR funded one. By continuing to modernize the fleet, CBP strengthens enforcement outcomes, reduces maintenance costs, enhances operational safety and readiness, and moves closer to achieving full fleet modernization. During the last fiscal


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Customs and Border Protection › Procurement, Construction, and Improvements › Integrated Operations Assets and Infrastructure


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*