Army Selects Sikorsky, Bell To Build Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Prototypes

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The Army on Wednesday evening announced it has selected Sikorsky’s [LMT] Raider X andBell’s [TXT] 360 Invictus to move forward in its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA)program.Sikorsky and Bell beat out a team of AVX [AVX] and L3Harris [LHX], Boeing [BA] and a teamof Karem Aircraft, Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN], and will now go on tobuild competitive prototypes for the Army’s next scout helicopter."The Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft is the Army's number one aviation modernizationpriority and is integral to effectively penetrate and dis-integrate adversaries' Integrated AirDefense Systems," Bruce Jette, the service’s top acquisition official, said in a statement. "It willenable combatant commanders with greater tactical, operational and strategic capabilitiesthrough significantly increased speed, range, endurance, survivability and lethality."