Digital technology: A centerpiece of Future Vertical Lift
The impact of digital transformation on defense technology, using model-based digital design to improve quality and efficiency of production.
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Sikorsky: FARA prototype 90% complete, learning from S-97 Raider’s flying data
“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.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
Last year, CSBA said the Army could afford both FVL variants. What’s changed since then?
The question of whether the Defense Department or the primes should own all the data rights to various elements of the FVL program is a simplistic, false choice, says a CSBA senior fellow.
Digital transformation is a key to maintaining US overmatch against China, Russia
Take a page from Formula 1, for instance, to improve military efficiency, former Acting Army Secretary John Whitley writes.
The danger of FVL incorporating too much IP and hindering spiral improvements
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.
Army FLRAA decision likely in September, but Black Hawks will stick around
Army officials assure lawmakers they're putting their Future Vertical Lift helos through the testing ringer, and that the aircraft they're meant to replace won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
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3D vision is redefining how drones navigate without GPS
As “dirty” RF and contested environments proliferate, autonomy increasingly depends on resilient positioning.
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Horizontal Integration Approach
BAE Systems Future Vertical Lift Air Launched Effects is a key capability that will require a unique path for success.
Sikorsky offers first glimpse of FARA entry, now 85% complete
The company has also built a second fuselage to assist in risk reduction for Increment One.
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Pacing the threat with open systems for FVL and the enduring fleet
There's no one software application, wave form, or set of capabilities that can win the day against near peers. Open systems, however, are that one thing that will keep Army systems relevant in all stages of conflict.
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Six ways DEFIANT X supports the Army’s total mission
The wars of tomorrow are won with the innovations of today.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
‘A recipe for the parts’: Bell plans factory of the future with FARA, FLRAA dreams
Breaking Defense goes inside Bell's planned futuristic factory near Fort Worth and its Amarillo assembly facility, as the company bets big on FARA and FLRAA wins.
FLRAA leaves Florida: Sikorsky-Boeing’s prototype assault helo makes longest trip yet
After 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.
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Don’t close the door on open systems
Success can only be achieved by finding common ground between the US government’s desire for MOSA and industry’s incentive to modify its current business cases.
New US, UK agreement on helicopters gives Brits unique FVL access
"I think we want to see interoperability as we digitize our forces, especially in our aviation formations. That's the focus," Brig. Gen. Robert Barrie, head of the US Army’s Program Executive Office-Aviation, told Breaking Defense.