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Bell Teams with Collins Aerospace to Deliver High-Performance Solution for U.S. Army


Bell Textron Inc. recently announced a teaming agreement with Collins Aerospace Systems as Bell competes for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) Competitive Prototype program.


Bell is designing a vertical lift aircraft, as part of the contract awarded in April 2019, with advanced performance capabilities and high operational availability to meet the threats faced in multi-domain operations. As the mission systems integrator, Collins Aerospace will deliver a new generation of avionics hardware and software featuring cyber-hardened and digital backbone solutions to the prototype.


“This team has a lot of experience supporting attack


and reconnaissance requirements and will deliver a smart, lethal BY THE NUMBERS 200 38 The number


of homes and offices raided by Russian police in a recent dissident crackdown. Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny


and his Anti-Corruption Foundation kept his organization’s electronic files (drives and flash sticks) out of police hands by flying them out of his high-rise apartment window to safety using a drone.


aircraft at an affordable cost,” said Keith Flail, vice president of Advanced Vertical Lift Systems at Bell. “The Army is looking for revolutionary solutions for warfighters, and we are confident that our team has the right combination of innovative technology and experience to build an aircraft with transformative capabilities on a compressed timeline.”


Collins Aerospace will also provide Model- Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and processes to configure and integrate mission avionics for the FARA. The company’s use of the new MBSE methodologies will enable rapid mission capability insertions into the FARA platform.


“By teaming with Bell, we can reduce the overall lifecycle costs and risks associated with this next generation of aircraft and effectively meet the FARA objectives in multi-domain threat environments,” said Dave Schreck, vice president and general manager for Military Avionics and


Helicopters at Collins Aerospace. “With a long history of providing avionics solutions to both Army and Special Operations aviators, Collins Aerospace is uniquely positioned to provide Bell with the cutting- edge cockpit technology necessary to enable warfighter mission success.”


Although the configuration has not yet been revealed, the Bell FARA prototype takes advantage of technologies demonstrated on the V-280 Valor, Bell 525 and other Bell programs incorporating expertise in fly- by-wire flight controls, rotors, and drives, as well as design-to-build technology that enhances sustainability, manufacturability and affordability. This team has the experience to produce an affordable, high-performance aircraft at


reduced


technical risk that will meet or exceed all requirements and provide reliable capability to the warfighter.


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The number of helicopters in the U.S. military fleet. By comparison, Russia has 1,200 military rotorcraft, according to former Reagan administration Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman.


The number of tree seeds per day that BioCarbon Engineering is attempting to plant with its drone system. Planting drones ‘carpet bomb’ the ground with seed cartridges. So far, the company has planted 38 tree species across Myanmar, Australia and the U.K. with a focus on reclaiming closed mining quarries.


Nov/Dec 2019


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