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Sikorsky Challenging FLRAA Award

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky unit is challenging Bell's win of the Army's award of the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft contract to Bell.

Sikorsky Defiant X rotorcraft — The Defiant X, Lockheed Martin Sikorsky's entry in the FLRAA program, features a coaxial compound rotor system. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

By Mark Huber • Contributor

December 29, 2022

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky unit is challenging the U.S. Army’s December 5th decision to award its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) contract to Bell and has filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The move was widely-anticipated.

Bell had fielded and flown its V-280 tiltrotor while the Sikorsky-Boeing team offered the Defiant X based on Sikorsky’s X-2 coaxial compound helicopter technology. The FLRAA program was designed to produce aircraft to eventually replace up to 4,000 Sikorsky Black Hawks. The initial production aircraft are expected to be operational by 2030 and the entire program could have a value of up to $80 billion.

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