
The Army on Tuesday awarded Bell [TXT] and a Sikorsky [LMT]-Boeing [BA] team contract modifications, each worth nearly $300 million, to continue work on the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft competitive demonstration and risk reduction (CD&RR) effort. The deals arrive as the Army gets set to release the final Request for Proposals for FLRAA production in the third quarter of this fiscal year before selecting a winner between Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft and a Sikorsky-Boeing’s Defiant X in late…