Bell, a subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT), has secured a potential five-year, $815M contract to repair, update or replace 35 items for AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters. The company will also manage inventories, establish metrics for supply response time and provide warehousing under the performance-based logistics contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Textron's (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has received Federal Aviation Administration certification under instrument flight rules for single-engine aircraft being offered to the U.S. Navy's Advanced Helicopter Training System.

The U.S. Army has selected Bell Helicopter and a team of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Sikorsky to build demonstrator rotorcraft prototypes under phase one of the branch’s Joint Multi Role technology demonstration program, Aviation Week reported Tuesday. Amy Butler and Graham Warwick report the program is a precursor to the Army’s planned Future Vertical Lift Medium (FVL-M) …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $34 million order for three new CV-22 trainers and a device upgrade to the V-22 program team of Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary Bell Helicopter. The team will upgrade a CV-22 cabin part task trainer and two fuselage aircrew and maintenance trainers at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. …

General Electric's (NYSE: GE) aviation business has secured a five-year, $180.6M contract to repair and overhaul  turboshaft engines that power the U.S. Navy's H-60 Seahawk helicopter and the U.S. Marine Corps' H-1 Cobra and Bell UH-1 Huey platforms.

A Leonardo subsidiary has resumed work on the U.S. Navy’s TH-119 helicopter trainer at its Philadelphia facility after the Government Accountability Office denied a protest of the potential $648.1M contract awarded in January, Vertical Magazine reported Thursday.

The U.S. Army has selected Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary and Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky business for the second phase of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition.

The U.S. Army has awarded contracts to Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary and a team of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky business to proceed with the competitive demonstration and risk reduction effort for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program, Defense News reported Monday.

The U.S. Navy plans to award Bell a sole-source contract to redesign the aft cabin door of an unmanned helicopter platform to incorporate a storage for weapons payload, FlightGlobal reported Friday.

The joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron's (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $379.4M contract to perform maintenance work on the V-22 Osprey multirole combat aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.