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Two teams \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/08\/05\/bell-changes-design-for-the-us-armys-future-attack-recon-aircraft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Textron\u2019s Bell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/02\/20\/lockheeds-raider-x-already-under-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lockheed Martin\u2019s Sikorsky <\/a>\u2014 were competitively building prototypes expected to fly this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Schloesser, Bell\u2019s executive vice president of strategic pursuits, told Defense News at the Army Aviation Association of America\u2019s conference here earlier this month that the company<b> <\/b>had already installed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/techwatch\/2024\/04\/25\/us-armys-next-gen-helicopter-engine-could-fly-in-black-hawk-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Army\u2019s Improved Turbine Engine Program, or ITEP, engine<\/a> in its 360 Invictus aircraft prototype when it got word of the cancellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sikorsky was in a similar boat, according to Paul Lemmo, the company\u2019s president. Shortly after hearing about the FARA cancellation, the company began proposing using the ITEP engine in its FARA prototype, known as Raider X, to test it ahead of its installation into the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, which the company also makes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army plans to replace all Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache attack helicopter engines with ITEP engines in the coming years, but the program has been delayed due to technical issues as well as supply chain problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Army agreed to the plan, Sikorsky earlier this month used the ITEP engine in its FARA prototype at its West Palm Beach, Florida, test center, Lemmo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt performed well,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the first time it\u2019s under a full load in a real aircraft turning rotors. We collected that data at low speed, we\u2019re analyzing it and the Army\u2019s authorized us to now run up to full speed on the ground to collect more data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITEP will go into a Black Hawk for tests later this year, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schloesser said the ITEP engine in Bell\u2019s possession has already been sent back to General Electric Aerospace, the engine\u2019s manufacturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The termination of the FARA program, he added, means the company has redirected engineers and specialists to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/techwatch\/2024\/04\/25\/us-army-to-field-long-range-combat-aircraft-to-first-unit-in-fy31\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is pursuing the FLRAA aircraft, expected to be fielded by 2031, to operate across long-distances more quickly. The Army in late 2022 chose Bell to build an aircraft based on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/06\/24\/bell-v-280-valor-tech-demonstrator-retires-from-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\">V-280 Valor technology demonstrator<\/a>, and the program will soon enter the engineering and manufacturing development phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bell\u2019s manpower shift over to the FLRAA program is allowing the effort to move \u201ca little bit faster than we anticipated,\u201d Schloesser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2023\/05\/02\/us-army-says-open-system-requirements-clear-for-next-gen-helicopter\/\" target=\"_blank\">on a Modular Open System Architecture<\/a>, or MOSA, in the FARA program will benefit the FLRAA program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sikorsky, meanwhile, will seek a home for the X2 coaxial technology it was refining 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