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Swift Engineering announced on Dec. 23, 2019 it has been selected to be the key partner for the airframe design and build of the Sikorsky Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competitive prototype. "We are proud to highlight Swift Engineering as one of our flagship, non-traditional defense contractors, providing design and construction of the fuselage for the FARA CP," said Tim Malia, Sikorsky's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Director. Swift Engineering will support the design and development of the airframe structure from its design studio and manufacturing facility in San Clemente, CA. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced on Jan. 21, 2020 completion of the first in a series of internally-funded Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) demonstrations on Nov. 19, 2019 using a company-owned Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The flight series will continue in 2020 and show that a GE-ER equipped with long-range sensors and Air Launched Effects (ALE) is able to Detect, Identify, Locate and Report (DILR) targetable data to support Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) systems. GE-ER is a long-range variant of the U.S. Army's MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS that provides the U.S. Army with increased endurance, more payload capacity to support future mission tasking, and improvements in system reliability and maintainability.