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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The Army’s latest response to contested logistics is an uncrewed one-ton VTOL lifter
Contested logistics means resupplying Soldiers and Marines at the edge, and doing so with autonomy that doesn’t risk lives.
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Winning the cognitive domain — A methodology built for democratic constraints
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
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Keeping the Lakota helicopter flying for the Army and National Guard is also a job for the OEM
The UH-72 Lakota is the Army's third largest fleet. Larger than the Chinook fleet and 75 percent the size of the Apache fleet, here’s how commercial practices make a difference in sustaining the fleet and enabling Army readiness.
Air Force Abandons Sole Source Nuke Helos Deal
With legislators demanding open competition for new helicopters to carry security teams to far-flung missile silos in an emergency, the Air Force has bowed to congressional pressure. Sikorsky had been hopeful of a $1.4 billion sole-source deal to replace the aging UH-1N helicopters, whose poor performance in counterterrorism drills had the Air Force saying it needed to bypass […]
Air Force Strategy on UH-1N: Wait and Hurry Up
What could justify the Air Force awarding a sole source contract for helicopters worth close to a billion – that’s a thousand millions – dollars? Pick an answer: Whatever the answer, Air Force Secretary Deborah James and other officials confirmed in House Armed Services subcommittee hearings Thursday that the service’s acquisition arm is studying whether […]