Black Hawk Replacement Program Enters New Phase
2/24/2020
By Yasmin Tadjdeh
The Army is set to award new contracts to advance its helicopter technology as it pursues a replacement for its aging Black Hawk.
The future long-range assault aircraft, also known as FLRAA, is being spearheaded by the Army’s future vertical lift cross-functional team as part of the service’s recently stood up Futures Command. Vertical lift is one of the Army’s top three major modernization efforts.
Requirements for FLRAA are being informed by a precursor effort known as the joint multi-role technology demonstrator, or JMR-TD, which saw Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team develop two new aircraft, the V-280 Valor and the SB-1 Defiant, respectively.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/2/24/black-hawk-replacement-program-enters-new-phase
