{"id":33875,"date":"2018-10-03T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/03\/us-army-triggers-design-competition-for-future-attack-reconnaissance-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:37:35","slug":"us-army-triggers-design-competition-for-future-attack-reconnaissance-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2018\/10\/03\/us-army-triggers-design-competition-for-future-attack-reconnaissance-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army triggers design competition for future attack reconnaissance helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army has kicked off a major design competition for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/06\/22\/us-army-shoots-to-get-future-attack-recon-helicopter-prototype-flying-by-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft by releasing a request to industry <\/a>on Oct. 3 to submit plans that could lead to a chance to build flyable prototypes in just a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service, in June, released a draft solicitation that outlined its intention to get two different helicopter prototypes flying in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2018\/03\/26\/army-aviation-at-a-crossroads-as-future-requirements-take-shape\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Chinooksunset.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Army aviation at \u2018a crossroads\u2019 as future requirements take shape<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">While the Army is headed toward a clean-sheet designed helicopter in the future, it&#039;s still a matter of when. The service&#039;s new Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team will officially settle on a timeline in less than two years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The effort is part of the Army\u2019s larger move to procure a family of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2017\/10\/24\/armys-future-vertical-lift-you-cannot-use-a-cookie-cutter-acquisition-process\/\" target=_blank>Future Vertical Lift, or FVL, aircraft<\/a> in the early 2030s, if not sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has been talking about procuring an FVL family of helicopters for the better part of a decade and has debated whether to prioritize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2016\/04\/29\/first-future-vertical-lift-helicopters-will-be-medium-lift\/\" target=_blank>the pursuit of a medium-lift helicopter<\/a> to replace UH-60 Black Hawks and AH-64 Apache helicopters. Alternatively, the service was considering buying an armed reconnaissance helicopter to fill the gap left by the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior\u2019s 2014 retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the advent of the Army Futures Command and its focus on six modernization priorities, of which FVL is third, progress is being made at lightning speed to make FVL a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2018\/08\/28\/can-austin-make-the-army-weird\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AFCUPTIGHT.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Can Austin make the Army weird?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Austin is free-thinking, creative and now a burgeoning technology innovation hub, but can its fearlessness to take risk rub off on the Army as it seeks to develop game-changing technology to stay ahead in battlefield capabilities?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service, through an FVL Cross-Functional Team, led by Brig. Gen. Wally Rugen, has settled on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2018\/03\/30\/army-future-vertical-lift-hones-in-on-attack-recon-long-range-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">going after both a long-range assault helicopter and a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft<\/a> somewhat back-to-back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the FARA procurement plans are fast-paced and lead straight to a winner through a fly-off competition, which deviates from the way the Army has gone about its future medium-lift helicopter development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Army collected designs, reviewed them and selected two teams to build prototypes to fly in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/02\/27\/development-for-future-vertical-lift-aircraft-slow-rolled-in-army-budget-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Multi-Role technology demonstration <\/a>for a medium-lift aircraft, the results will simply inform requirements for the Army to move into a program of record where the service will make a determination on how it will compete, build and procure a long-range assault variant of FVL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the FARA competition, the Army plans to award four to six initial design contracts in June of 2019, and then nine months later \u2014 to avoid camping out in the PowerPoint stage \u2014 the service will choose up to two designs to move forward in fiscal 2021 with a fly-off planned to start in the first quarter of 2023 (November 2022 to be specific, according to the solicitation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Raider10-18.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Raider10-18.jpg.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Raider10-18.jpg.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Raider10-18.jpg.jpg?resize=768,431 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Raider10-18.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,575 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sikorsky&#8217;s S-97 Raider has hit 200 knots in a recent flight test, according to Lockheed Martin, which owns the company. The X2 coaxial technology will feed into the company&#8217;s offering for the Army&#8217;s Future Vertical Lift program that aims to acquire both a long-range assault aircraft and an attack reconnaissance aircraft. Competition is just kicking off for the attack recon program while long-range assault has two technology demonstrators informing the program. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin\/Sikorsky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army will choose a winner and move forward into a milestone appropriate to advance the procurement of the helicopter, whether that is a technology development phase or engineering and manufacturing development or even a production phase, Rugen told a small group of reporters in an Oct. 3 media roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all depends on where the technology stands following the fly-off and what phase of the acquisition process the Army will enter once it chooses a winner, Dan Bailey, the Army\u2019s JMR-TD director, said in the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Army currently lacks the ability to conduct armed reconnaissance, light attack, and security with improved stand-off and lethal and non-lethal capabilities with a platform sized to hide in radar clutter and for the urban canyons and mega cities,\u201d the solicitation states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The helicopter would be the \u201c \u2018knife-fighter\u2019 of future Army Aviation capabilities\u201d in a small package with \u201cmaximized performance,\u201d it describes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army doesn\u2019t want to carve out requirements in granite, according to Rugen, and intends to be flexible as technology capability unfolds in the program, but the solicitation does state it wants a 40-foot maximum rotor diameter, and the fuselage should also not exceed 40 feet in width.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By staying flexible, the Army hopes to steer clear of some of the mistakes it has made in the past attempting to acquire an armed reconnaissance helicopter. The Army failed three times to procure a new aircraft \u2014 the most memorable being the cancellation of the Comanche helicopter program in 2004 after two aircraft were built and $6.9 billion was spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rugen said the Army also wants to make sure affordability considerations are driven into the program and the designs from the beginning are a top requirement for industry to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army also wants the designs to incorporate the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2016\/05\/02\/itep-engine-would-ideally-drop-into-fvl-aircraft\/\" target=_blank> Improved Turbine Engine Program, or ITEP,<\/a> engine that is being competitively developed to replace the engines in Black Hawks and Apaches. The Army is close to choosing a winner from two teams designing engines to move into the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the program within the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army plans to spend approximately $15 million per industry participant in the initial design phase. Participants would receive $8.5 million in FY19 and $6.5 million in FY20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two participants selected to continue into the prototype phase of the program would receive about $735 million each from FY20 to FY23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rugen and Bailey said industry interest following the release of the draft solicitation in June has been higher than anticipated and included both industry partners that were not expected and all of those that were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailey said that, based on industry interest and participation so far, choosing six designs would be a competitive process because there are more than six possible entrants that have expressed interest in submitting designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Malia, Sikorsky\u2019s program director for FVL light development, told Defense News in a recent interview that the Lockheed Martin-owned company planned to use its X2 technology that is used in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/06\/20\/experimental-helicopter-raider-cleared-for-full-flight-test-program\/\" target=_blank>S-97 Raider coaxial helicopter<\/a> program as the centerpiece to its design offering for the FARA competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is already scaling its X2 technology used in Raider up to a medium-lift aircraft \u2014 called the SB-1 Defiant that is participating in the JMR technology demonstration and expected to fly by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2018\/03\/14\/defiant-undergoing-rigorous-testing-prior-to-first-flight-this-year\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Defiant.jpg_8fab25.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Defiant undergoing rigorous testing prior to first flight this year<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant coaxial helicopter demonstrator is headed toward a first flight later than this summer, according to Boeing and Sikorsky company officials.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malia said it would not be difficult to scale the helicopter from the 34-foot main rotor diameter size of the Raider to the desired 40-foot diameter rotor blades envisioned for FARA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has also been working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2018\/04\/20\/sikorsky-modifies-raider-helicopter-to-use-us-armys-future-engine\/\" target=_blank>designs to outfit Raider <\/a>or any aircraft it builds with X2 technology with the ITEP engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sikorsky announced Oct. 3 that its Raider aircraft exceeded 200 knots in a flight test at its West Palm Beach, Florida, flight test center.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2018\/06\/19\/bells-v-280-valor-shows-off-agility-speed-in-first-public-flight-demo\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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