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Startup HyperKelp says it is demonstrating air-droppable buoys for the U.S. Navy that could detect the acoustic signature of boost-glide hypersonic vehicles.

Aerostructures and parts provider GKN Aerospace plans to close its manufacturing facility in the St. Louis area by the end of 2024.

The companies will produce initial conceptual designs for operational and demonstration systems.

GE Aerospace says the first T901 flight test engine for the U.S. Army's FARA contest will be delivered to competitors Bell and Sikorsky in the next few months.

The USMC modernization plan for aviation focuses a starting a new loitering munition program and investing in vertical take-off and landing systems.

Piasecki Aircraft plans to convert the former Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Heliplex into an R&D center for next generation VTOL and UAS aircraft systems.

Helicopter operator Bristow Group has snatched a lucrative Irish search-and-rescue contract from competitor and incumbent CHC.

Columbia Helicopters President and CEO Michael Tremblett announced the agreement May 31.

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Sikorsky is staying positive.

The GAO denial of Sikorsky’s FLRAA protest shows the Army prioritized Bell’s submission detail and open systems architecture over Sikorsky’s much lower cost.

Lockheed Martin has decided to not pursue any further legal action to overturn the U.S. Army’s selection of the Bell V-280 Valor.

The GAO on April 13 published a 38-p. report on its denial of Sikorsky’s protest to the Army’s decision to award the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft.

Lisa Atherton, Bell’s chief operating officer, has been named the rotorcraft company’s next CEO.

Connecticut lawmakers are frustrated that they still have not received a briefing from the Army that explains their reasoning for selecting Bell's FLRAA bid.

Nine U.S. soldiers were killed when two Sikorsky HH-60 Black Hawks collided during night training.

The U.S. Army wants $1.5 billion for its Future Vertical Lift programs.

Sikorsky is working with Leonardo Helicopters to evaluate its X2 coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter technology for application to an emerging Italian Army.

Sikorsky and GE Aerospace plan to develop a fully autonomous hybrid-electric testbed powered by a CT7 turboshaft-driven hybrid-electric propulsion system.

Sikorsky has pushed back certification and market entry of its S-92A+ upgrade two years to 2025 and shelved plans for a future S-92B.

Germany could become a new source of center fuselages for the F-35 program, taking over from Turkish industry.

Lockheed Martin is not giving up on its bid to sell the F-21, a specialized F-16 variant, to the Indian Air Force.

Lockheed Martin's supplemental protest entered the protest docket on Feb. 6, or 40 days after the Sikorsky parent filed the first complaint against the Army.

Bell’s tandem-cockpit, single-main-rotor Invictus is competing for the FARA contest against Sikorsky’s Raider X.

The U.S. Army and Bell parent company Textron on Jan. 25 expressed confidence in the aggressive schedule of the Future Long Range Attack Aircraft program.