Bell’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Enters Milestone B
August 05 2024 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced
today the United States Army has approved the Milestone B decision
for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), marking the
beginning of the weapon system’s Program of Record (PoR).
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The United States Army has approved the
Milestone B decision for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft,
marking the beginning of the weapon system’s Program of Record.
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"This achievement marks a historic moment for both the U.S. Army
and Bell,” said Ryan Ehinger, Bell’s Senior Vice President and
Program Director, FLRAA program. “Now that the program has
Milestone B approval, the course is set for delivering
transformational capability to the warfighter. The FLRAA team
remains laser-focused on working in tandem with the U.S. Army to
execute the next phase of Engineering and Manufacturing Development
(EMD).”
The Milestone B decision is a part of the Major Capability
Acquisition process and comes after years of the Bell team working
alongside the U.S. Army and Bell’s FLRAA teammates to decompose
requirements, reduce risk and inform the weapon system acquisition.
This includes the execution of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
ensuring integration and effectiveness of the aircraft’s design
including weapon system design, sustainment and system integrations
that are integral to the U.S. Army’s special mission
requirements.
“This significant milestone is made possible by the years of
hard work and sacrifice by Team FLRAA and our teammates throughout
the Army and the Department of Defense,” said COL Jeffrey Poquette,
FLRAA Project Manager. “We are poised to deliver a truly
transformational aircraft for the Army. The hard work continues
into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase where we
will design, build and test FLRAA prototypes. It is certainly an
exciting time for the program.”
Following the U.S. Army’s FLRAA contract award in December 2022,
Bell established several new state-of-the-art facilities and
established several new innovative manufacturing processes to drive
cost, schedule and performance to support the program’s execution.
As Bell and the FLRAA team enter into the EMD phase, Bell’s focus
will be on continued design maturation and prototyping.
The U.S. Army’s new long-range assault aircraft will fly twice
as far and twice as fast as the current fleet. By utilizing mature
tiltrotor technology coupled with an innovative digital engineering
approach and an open architecture, it will be the most reliable,
affordable and high-performing long-range assault aircraft in the
world.
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This material is based on work supported by the Army Contracting
Command – Redstone Arsenal under Contract No.W58RGZ-23-C-0001.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the Army Contracting Command –
Redstone Arsenal.
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