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Bell Helicopter Taps Lockheed Martin To Join Team On Third Gen Tiltrotor

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

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Bell Helicopter [TXT] yesterday named Lockheed Martin [LMT] the first of its V-280 program tier one members. The Army recently chose the Bell V-280 Valor to enter into negotiations for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) program, with contracts expected to be awarded this month. The Bell team faces competition from a Sikorsky [UTX]-Boeing [BA] team. V-280 Valor Artist's Rendering: Bell Helicopter Additional team members will be announced in the coming months. "We are very excited about teaming…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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