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Army Chief of Staff GEN James C. McConville sits in the cockpit of DEFIANT after a flight demonstration in West Palm Beach, Florida on Oct. 22, 2020. Sikorsky/ Lockheed Martin hosted McConville, the Army's Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team, and PEO Aviation at their flight test facility for a flight demonstration of both of their technology demonstrators - Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), S-97 RAIDER; and Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), SB>1 DEFIANT. On October 30th, 2020, Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. was awarded follow-on task orders supporting the Fort Huachuca Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Instruction and Mission Support (IMS) contract.These are new, combined, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price task orders that support the $533M UAS IMS contract awarded to Pinnacle in March 2019 by the Army Contracting Command, Orlando, FL with an estimated completion date of March 2026. Under these task orders, Pinnacle and their Textron and AOC Global teammate employees, supported by their Sierra Vista, Arizona-based Program Management Office, provide the flight and maintenance training and operational maintenance, logistics, and information technology (IT) support for the UAS training programs at the 2/13th Aviation Regiment, 1 st Aviation Brigade, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, and the U.S. Army Aviation Center Logistics Command (ACLC) at Huachuca.