GAO has up to 100 days to rule in a bid protest, but the congressional watchdog agency strives to resolve cases as quickly as possible.
By Theresa HitchensThe award is worth up to $1.3 billion, but a follow-on production contract could put the program in the range of $70 billion over its lifetime.
By Ashley RoqueAs for whether the Army or other military services will adopt the autonomous technology, Stuart Young, DARPA program manager for ALIAS, said he’s “very confident” but “the question has to do in what form or fashion.”
By Jaspreet Gill“I would love to say that solving a problem is all that we should be doing at Army Futures Command, but it’s not,” Lt. Gen. Thomas Todd said. “We really have to be designing the Army of 2040 and beyond. In order to do that, you can’t wait on technology in 2040.”
By Jaspreet Gill“My requirement was ‘don’t even bring it if it can’t be flown fully autonomous,'” a senior Army Futures Command official said.
By Andrew Eversden“I think there’s further work to do to improve the system. But we saw a lot of positive things as a test,” the Army’s top acquisition official said of IVAS, before separately noting a potential delay in a major future helicopter program contract.
By Andrew Eversden“If we didn’t have an S-97, we’d have to wait another year-plus to be able to fly those data points and to inform our production design,” said Sikorsky’s chief engineer for the company’s Raider-X FARA offering.
By Andrew EversdenIf all options are exercised, the contract value could be $4.4 billion.
By Andrew EversdenThe Germany Ministry of Defense has selected Boeing’s CH-47F Chinook over Lockheed Martin Sikorsky’s CH-53K.
By Andrew EversdenIn plant tour, Sikorsky official says “hundreds” of parts could be 3D printed if chosen for Army’s high-profile FARA and FLRAA competitions.
By Andrew EversdenThe company has also built a second fuselage to assist in risk reduction for Increment One.
By Andrew EversdenAfter a 700 nautical mile trip to show off its FLRAA offering in Nashville, pilot feedback on the SB>1 Defiant was “absolutely boring — the way test pilots like it to be,” a Team Defiant member said.
By Andrew EversdenThe Air Force’s decision to curtail the buy raises major questions about the future of the service’s combat search and rescue mission.
By Valerie InsinnaThe Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, or ALIAS, was outfitted on a UH-60A Black Hawk at Fort Campbell, KY, for a simulated flight through an “obstacle run” in “Manhattan” with no pilots on board.
By Jaspreet Gill