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Open Architecture Will Make Or Break ‘Backbone’ Of Future Vertical Lift

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

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Once the Army lands on a design for its next-generation helicopter, it is more important to establish coherent open architecture standards than to decide what weapons and avionics systems the aircraft will carry, according to a panel of military and industry officials involved in the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program“The focus right now is making sure we get the backbone right, getting the interfaces right, so that we can iterate some of these systems … onboard,” said Col. Robert Freeland,…

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