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By Tamir Eshel Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Boeing have signed a teaming
agreement on Jan. 13, to submit a joint proposal in response to the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate solicitation for the Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) Phase 1 program. The JMR TD supports the Department of Defense’s Future Vertical Lift program to deliver the next generation of vertical lift aircraft with greater performance, reliability and affordability. The team will compete to build and fly one or more demonstrator air- craft in 2017 to be evaluated for next-generation vertical lift performance in a medium-lift-sized aircraft.