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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about vertical flight aircraft & advanced aviation technology. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, announced on April 16 ...

CW2 William Bogert examines the cockpit of Bell's Joint Multi-Role Technology aircraft. Soldiers visited JMR-TD industry partners and provided direct feedback to help inform future vertical lift ...

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 ...

US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has yet to decide if it intends to acquire any of the US Army’s developmental Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft. Speaking at the Special Operations Forces (SOF) ...

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 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 ...

A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk served as a surrogate for the service’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, testing the new Modular Effects Launcher during Project Convergence 21 at Yuma Proving ...

Even if they did not submit a helicopter design, Northrop Grumman might be a big part of the FVL (Future Vertical Lift) with a multitude of technologies being developed specifically for the program.

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 ...