

Army aviation is introducing a tiltrotor to its fleet, creating defense industrial base challenges and opportunities.
By Barry Rosenberg
The Army is upfitting vehicles with big 24 or 32-inch displays that present multiple sources of data for a full operational picture.
By Breaking Defense
An open digital architecture leads to increased interoperability, affordability, upgrades and enhanced capabilities like launched effects and autonomy.
By Breaking Defense
With a MOSA-enabled backbone, the ITEP engine, launched effects, and autonomy, the Black Hawk helicopter would be well-suited to both near-peer conflict and all-domain operations.
By Breaking Defense
Sikorsky’s RAIDER X is designed to meet the U.S. Army’s Modular Open Systems Approach standards for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition.
By Lockheed Martin
Solving the JADC2 sense/make-sense/act strategy requires communications, navigation, identification capabilities that distribute the decision making to act fast.
By Breaking Defense
There are many critical connections being made across the FVL ecosystem that will also serve to modernize the current fleet.
By Breaking Defense
The Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) allows commanders to jointly plan, coordinate and synchronize operations across air, land, sea and space assets.
By Breaking Defense
If the Army heeds industry’s emphasis on protecting intellectual property than a dependence on proprietary technology will hamstring FVL’s ability to address evolving threats.
By Barry Rosenberg
BAE Systems Future Vertical Lift Air Launched Effects is a key capability that will require a unique path for success.
By Graham Ward, BAE Systems
The future of Army aviation depends on major improvements in aircraft speed, range, and reliability. Bell’s vision to ensure these programs enhance national security and are affordable relies on digital engineering and modeling to integrate missions and air vehicle systems with sustainment in mind so they all meld together in advance of manufacturing to reduce risk.
By Breaking Defense
Bell’s methodology to meet the Army’s Modular Open Systems Approach requirement is enabled by a common digital backbone that will be instantiated on both the V-280 Valor for FLRAA and the Bell 360 Invictus for FARA.
By Breaking Defense
Bell’s methodology to meet the Army’s Modular Open Systems Approach requirement is enabled by a common digital backbone that will be instantiated on both the V-280 Valor for FLRAA and the Bell 360 Invictus for FARA.
By Barry Rosenberg