The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is urging policy makers to consider the weight, speed, and range of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) so as to allow U.S. company exports of such systems without running the risk that foreign countries could use some of the exports to proliferate cruise ...

The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Bell [TXT] a more than $240 million contract as part of the delivery of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Bahrain under the foreign military sales program, the Pentagon announced Feb. 7. The work is to be completed in August, 2022. Bell has been angling ...

A variant of the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Capability Set 1 is a “likely replacement” for the U.S. Special Operations Command’s fleet of A/MH-6M Little Bird (MELB) helicopters, James Smith, the SOCOM acquisition executive, told attendees at the NDIA Special ...

U.S. Special Operations Command wants to make the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AC-130J gunship “more crew friendly” and to reduce crew size through artificial intelligence and machine learning, James Smith, the acquisition executive for SOCOM, told the 30th Annual Special Operations ...

The Boeing [BA] AH-64E may receive software fixes to improve the accuracy of the helicopter’s Northrop Grumman [NOC] 30 mm gun. “Operational units have reported that the 30 mm gun is less accurate on the AH-64E than on the legacy AH-64D,” according to the FY 2018 annual report by ...

The Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) has recommended that the Air Force program office re-evaluate the Sikorsky [LMT] HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter to determine whether it will be more survivable than the HH-60G Pave Hawk that CRH is to replace. Design ...