The Army chose the Bell proposal over the Sikorsky-Boeing proposal to fulfill one of the service’s top modernization priorities, future vertical lift. Under the contract, the service expects to ...

The Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) will mature technologies and help refine requirements for the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. SOURCE: Bell Helicopter V-280 Valor brochure.

Also in March, Bell and a joint Sikorsky-Boeing team ... manner across all of the platforms to really deliver that future vertical lift ecosystem.” First, the Army is using the UH-60V to test ...

What that means in practical terms is that no matter how capable the airframes are that Bell/Textron, Boeing and Lockheed/Sikorsky offer, Future Vertical Lift cannot achieve its objectives unless ...

(Image: Bell) Earlier this year, we took part to a media roundtable with Bell about their Future Vertical Lift effort. When we asked about the changes in doctrine required for the introduction of ...

As the Pentagon considers the future of military vertical lift, Bell Helicopter is talking with the US Navy and Air Force about designing a next-generation tiltrotor solution that could be ready by ...

This event took place on October 16 at AUSA Annual 2024. The Army’s Future Vertical Lift initiative is designed to ensure forces have the capabilities, support and flexibility needed in all ...

Bell Image Getting reliability, maintenance and a backbone built on open architecture right first is how the Pentagon is approaching its future vertical lift programs, defense officials said on ...

FLRAA is the first instantiation of the Pentagon’s overall Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative ... 2017 with a target fielding date of 2030. Bell V-280 Valor technology demonstrator performing ...

In the near term, the Army's Future Vertical Lift program has prioritized building ... Sikorsky Aircraft Company: $938,400,000 Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.: $790,830,873 Boeing Company: $ ...

The Army initiated the FLRAA program in 2019 as part of its Future Vertical Lift initiative to replace a portion of its assault and utility helicopter fleet. The FLRAA is intended to eventually ...