The Pentagon's timeline for the Future Vertical Lift initiative to reach initial operational capability is too far away, an Aerospace Industries Association executive fretted today -- a point agreed to by the Pentagon's FVL acquisition staff specialist. Speaking Friday at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, Betsy Schmid, AIA's vice president for national security and acquisition policy, expressed concern that the IOC timeline for the first variant of the Future Vertical Lift is still about 20 years away...
