Congress boosts budget for US Army’s long-range assault aircraft to drive down risk
By: Jen Judson  
WASHINGTON — On a tight timeline but with additional funding, the U.S. Army is attempting to field a new long-range assault aircraft by 2030.
Congress has added $76 million in funding to the aircraft program’s top line in fiscal 2020 to drive down technical risk and speed up delivery. The money, which Congress approved as part of its FY20 appropriations bill signed into law last month, will fund what the service is calling a “competitive demonstration and risk reduction†effort ahead of the start of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA, program of record.
The Army completed its Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstration, or JMR TD, for which Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team each built aircraft to help the service understand what is possible for a future aircraft — mainly to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/01/13/congressional-budget-add-for-armys-long-range-assault-aircraft-aims-to-drive-down-risk/
