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Army Soliciting Proposals For FLRAA Competitive Demo Phase

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, September 5th, 2019

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Army Soliciting Proposals For FLRAA Competitive Demo Phase

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 DEFIANT. Photo courtesy Sikorsky and Boeing.

The Army released a request for proposals this week to solicit industry offerings for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competitive demonstration and risk reduction (CD&RR) effort, with plans to make a downselect decision next March. The competitive demo effort for FLRAA is intended to deliver an initial concept design for the future aircraft set to replace the Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, as officials look to transition the program from technology demonstrators to a fully-realized platform. Brig Gen.…

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