The Army has chosen five vendors to build prototypes for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition, the service announced today . The selection of an AVX Aircraft- L3 Technologies team, Bell, Boeing, Karem Aircraft and Sikorsky comes almost two months earlier than planned, which officials attributed to using other transaction authority. "In just over a one-year period, the Army moved from the FARA 'kick-off' to now awarding prototype contracts -- a process that traditionally takes three to five years to...
