Army Examines FVL Acceleration as Service Awards 5 FARA Contracts

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The U.S. Army's Cross-Functional Team on Future Vertical Lift is examining an acceleration ofthe Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, as the service on April 23 awarded five industrycontracts for the development of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft.The Army awarded five Other Transaction Authority (OTA) for Prototype Agreements for theaircraft design, build, and test of FARA to an AVX/L3 [LLL] team; Bell [TXT]; Boeing [BA];Karem Aircraft; and Sikorsky [LMT].AVX, which teamed with L3 to offer a coaxial-rotor compound helicopter, was awarded a $732million contract. Bell's pitch, based on the 525 commercial fly-by-wire helicopter technology,earned the company $790 million, according to the federal government's contracting website.Boeing's award came out to $772 million. Karem Aircraft, which specializes in high-efficiencytiltrotor technologies, merited $738 million.