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Army Lays Out $790 Million Funding Request for Future Vertical Lift R&D

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019

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Army Lays Out $790 Million Funding Request for Future Vertical Lift R&D

Bell Helicopter's V-280 takes its first flight in Amarillo, Texas. (Bell Flight)

The Pentagon FY 2020 budget request includes about $790 million for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) research and development. That includes about $94 million for FVL technology under basic research and $152 million for FVL advanced technology. The Army's significant budget request for FVL may allay the fears of some in industry about sustaining the Joint Multirole Technology Demonstration (JMR-TD) program in which the Bell [TXT] V-280 Valor is competing against the Boeing [BA]-Sikorsky built SB-1 Defiant. JMR-TD is scheduled to…

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