The company’s confidence is based on signals the Army has recently sent on the structure of its rotary wing fleet, says Kathleen Jolivette, vice president of attack helicopter programs for Boeing.

Program Executive Office Aviation is delivering rapid modernization to meet the Army’s number three modernization priority, Future Vertical Lift (FVL), through the Future Attack Reconnaissance ...

In our last paper, we discussed the current state of the U.S. vertical lift fleet and how past investment decisions helped shape this fleet. This brief will focus on future investments. Vertical lift ...

The US military takes too long to develop new technologies and turn them into effective battlefield platforms. That is the assessment of Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, who on 31 August ...

The U.S. Army's recent decision to repurpose Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program resources demonstrates the service’s intentions to leverage its significant $2 billion investment in ...

The U.S. Army expects its costs for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programs to rise substantially over the next several years as the service down-selects its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) ...

The US Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft need to be below USD10,000 per flight hour and below USD60 million per airframe to be truly effective, according to an influential US senator. “If we ...

Sikorsky's Defiant X is one of the competitors in the US Army's FLRAA competition. The Netherlands is “looking into the future” as it upgrades its current helicopter fleet. (Sikorsky-Boeing) The US ...