The U.S. Army’s Cross-Functional Team on Future Vertical Lift is examining an acceleration of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, as the service on April 23 awarded five industry contracts for the development of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. The Army awarded five Other ...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a $362 million deal from the Army to recapitalize 50 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) launchers, the Pentagon said Monday. The deal is an initial step towards the Army’s goal to eventually upgrade its fleet of 225 MLRS M270A1 and 160 previously ...

While industry observers had speculated that Bell [TXT] would offer a tiltrotor for the U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition, it has instead offered a conventional rotorcraft based on the company’s new 525 helicopter. “I think we have a very competitive ...

NASHVILLE — The attraction of commercial airline pay has lured helicopter pilots away from the U.S. Army, but career incentive pay may help keep them, Maj. Gen. William Gayler, the commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence in Fort Rucker, Alabama, told the Army Aviation Association ...

NASHVILLE — Representatives of Collins Aerospace [UTX] believe that the company’s Vehicle Management Computer may benefit the Army Future Vertical Lift program, the company said during the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual conference last week. Future Vertical Lift “ ...

The Army on Friday released a list of communications and electromagnetic spectrum projects the service will go after through the rest of 2019 under its new partnership with the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC). The NSC signed a five-year prototype cooperation agreement with the Army in October, ...