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Bell Helicopter Adds New Partners For Valor Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, May 7th, 2014

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Bell Helicopter Adds New Partners For Valor Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator

Bell V-280 Valor Image: Bell Helicopter

Bell Helicopter [TXT] May 5 revealed cooperative agreements with three new partners--Meggitt,Eaton [ETN], and Astronics [ATRO]--for the team developing the V-280 Valor, the company’s offering for the Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) program. “Team Valor continues to align interests and resources on this clean sheet design, together delivering technology and innovation that reduces cost, weight and complexity in order to make the next generation of tiltrotor technology more affordable,” said John Garrison, president and CEO of Bell Helicopterm, in…

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