NASHVILLE–While the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has turned down MD Helicopters‘ protest of what the company called its exclusion from the U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition, Lynn Tilton, the company’s chief executive, said that the ...

NASHVILLE–An air-to-air refueling capability for a Future Vertical Lift (FVL) platform will be “increasingly important” for U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command, as the command seeks to sustain its operational versatility, Col. Jon Tussing, the deputy commander, told the ...

The Army Future Vertical Lift program is “absolutely fundamental” to the service’s ability to execute maneuver warfare against a near peer threat, like Russian and Chinese forces, Army  Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel on Apr. 9 during ...

As the FY 2020 budget season gets underway, the U.S. Army may face the issue of whether to push Congress for more funding for Boeing [BA] CH-47F, Block II upgrades or new AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. “If Boeing and the Army aviation community are going to prioritize one program for ...

Will the U.S. Army’s planned 10 percent reduction in the service’s buy of Boeing [BA] CH-47 Block II upgrades result in a Nunn-McCurdy breach–a unit cost increase of 15 percent or more? The Army says no, and the service does not want to head to Capitol Hill to justify that ...

While U.S. Navy/Marine Corps requirements call for 38 amphibious ships to support the simultaneous deployment of two Marine Expeditionary Brigades, the Navy has not budgeted for any such ships in its FY 2020 budget. The requirements call for 12 LHDs or LHAs, 13 LPDs, and 13 LSDs or LPD Flight II ...