Inside six helo companies gunning for the Army’s Flight School Next program
With Flight School Next, the Army is looking to shake up the way it acquires both the aircraft and the curriculum.
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How the Army is transforming helicopter pilot training
Flight School Next will draw on industry expertise to prepare helicopter pilots for real-world situations.
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
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Army Flight School Next: A new way to train the next generation of aviators
An innovative program to draw on industry resources to train helicopter pilots in a different way.
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Next steps for FLRAA MV-75, from the Army and Bell program leaders
Discussing the MV-75 FLRAA program objectives and how they align with the Army's modernization strategy.
Moving faster, sharing risk: How the Army wants to accelerate FLRAA helo program
The intent, Brig. Gen. David Phillips said, is not to “leave any rigor behind” but to focus on producing a “a safe, suitable, effective platform for the users.”
FLRAA added extra payload capacity to prep for SOF missions
"The Army’s program managers for FLRAA and Aviation looked at PEO-RW’s engineering analysis and considered the weight trades before adding a little bit of weight to the baseline of that aircraft,” A PEO-RW official said.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Army leaders want FLRAA by 2028, sidestep questions on Black Hawk’s fate
“We are unwilling to make commitments that are [not], in our opinion, in the best interest of soldiers...,” Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said of the fate of a new multi-year UH-60M procurement deal.
V-22 will fly with restrictions until 2026
“We had some learning in the middle,” said V-22 Program Manager Marine Corps Col. Robert Hurst, “and that learning in the middle took us from the summer of ‘25 to start in the spring of ‘26.”
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A ‘Pathfinder’ for the Army: FLRAA will be a first for MOSA in helicopter design
MOSA and the digital backbone give the Army a vendor-agnostic path to make aircraft system modifications from the outset of Future Vertical Lift.
The sights of Avalon Air Show 2025: Day Three [PHOTOS]
An on-the-ground look at the 2025 Avalon Air Show in Australia.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Addressing risk and intellectual property rights in the FLRAA supply chain
Army aviation is introducing a tiltrotor to its fleet, creating defense industrial base challenges and opportunities.
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Tiltrotors will change CONOPS for Army aviation, bring “step-change” to industry
FLRAA is a clean-sheet weapon system that will leverage the latest in manufacturing technology and digital engineering.
Army’s FLRAA fuselage production staying in Kansas, Bell announces
Bell Textron has "a lot of experience with composite fuselages, and so they're going to use their experience to potentially design it ... more modular,” Brig. Gen. David Phillips told Breaking Defense.
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Tiltrotor: The need for speed & range in response to global threats
With range and speed, the tiltrotor enables operations in dispersed locations, safe from most long-range fires and threats that make current assets vulnerable.