
Foreseeing major future investment by the Defense Department in advanced vertical lift technologies, Bell [TXT] has opened up shop in the Pentagon-adjacent forest of commercial high rises where its primary competitors have owned buildings for years.Bell on May 23 cut the ribbon on its new Advanced Vertical Lift Center (AVLC) in the Crystal City area of Arlington, just south of the Pentagon and a short Metro ride from Capitol Hill across the Potomac River. Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Boeing [BA]…