Army Names Five Awardees for Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Design Phase

The U.S. Army has awarded other transaction agreements to five contractors to provide initial designs of the service™s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft platform, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, AVX Aircraft, Textron™s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary and Karem Aircraft were selected out of eight FARA proposers.

Following assessment of aircraft designs, the Army will down-select to two participants that will move into the prototyping stage by February 2020.

The service branch plans to name one winner for the FARA program and expects low-rate production of the aircraft to commence by 2028.

œWe™re looking at every opportunity to accelerate the process to get it earlier,” Col. Craig Alia, chief of staff for the Army™s Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team, told Breaking Defense in an interview.

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