August 15, 2022 – In Breaking News – U.S. Army Futures Command

Future conflict is likely to occur over wide areas and across multiple domains, according to recent Army assessments of the future operational environment.

To prepare for this probability and the rigors associated with it, the Army is moving quickly to modernize legacy equipment and systems, including in the aviation space.

Guiding efforts to accelerate advances to the Army’s mission-essential helicopter fleet is the Army Futures Command Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team, or FVL CFT.

(The US Army is expected to select the winning platform for the #FLRAA program this summer. The two competing platforms are Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor and #Sikorsky-Boeing’s #DEFIANTX coaxial aircraft. Courtesy of Honeywell Aerospace and YouTube. Posted on May 13, 2022.)

Based at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, the FVL CFT develops future-focused combat systems to ensure the Army maintains vertical lift excellence for years to come.

“FVL is modernizing Army Aviation with transformational speed, range, and convergence, achieving decision dominance for the joint and coalition forces in multi-domain operations,” said. Maj. Gen. Walter “Wally” Rugen, Director of the FVL CFT.

For years, Army helicopters have provided the force with vital attack and reconnaissance, air assault, and medical evacuation capabilities.

The FVL CFT understands that further improving these capabilities will sharpen warfighters’ abilities to penetrate enemy defenses, exploit open corridors and render swift emergency care to wounded Soldiers.

(The Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing team has continued to expand the flight envelope of #Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing, the team’s technology demonstrator, highlighting how #DEFIANTX offers speed where it matters and never-before-seen maneuverability and agility at the X, where it is absolutely critical to survivability. DEFIANT X offers the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (#FLRAA) greater utility and operational flexibility to the ground maneuver commander than what they have today. DEFIANT X will revolutionize the Army’s air assault capability with limited changes to tactics, techniques, procedures, training, and infrastructure. Courtesy of Team DEFIANT and YouTube. Posted on Apr 4, 2022.)

As a result, FVL CFT activities — which range from drafting capability documents for air launched effects and the modular open system approach to evaluating requirements for navigating successfully in a degraded visual environment — are skillfully designed to strengthen the Army and joint force’s ability to operate with increased lethality, survivability and reach on future battlefields.

Exploring possibilities for enabling and integrating more agile and powerful rotorcraft requires expertise in a variety of fields, which is why the FVL CFT includes scientists, aerospace engineers, IT experts, data analysts, and Army helicopter pilots.

(See the US Army’s Next-Gen Super Helicopter. The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell and Lockheed Martin for the United States Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. The aircraft was officially unveiled at the 2013 Army Aviation Association of America’s Annual Professional Forum and Exposition in Fort Worth, Texas. The aircraft made its first flight on 18 December 2017 in Amarillo, Texas. Courtesy of Military Gear and YouTube. Posted on May 9, 2022.)

Continue reading… Army’s Future Vertical Lift eyes future skies

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(See how the new 17XX military occupational speciality is revolutionizing how we do cyber security. Courtesy of the Marines and YouTube.)

• The U.S. Marine Corps 1700 Cyberspace Operations Occupational Field cyberspace workforce works to compete successfully on future battlefields & adapt to the rising threat of near-peer adversaries like Russia and China.

• The 17XX Cyberspace Operations occupational field was redesignated as the 17XX Information Maneuver OCCFLD effective March of 2022.

• The 17XX IM OCCFLD formally manages the career path of Marines with the highly specialized training required for space, electromagnetic spectrum operations, cyber warfare, civil affairs, and psychological operations.
  

• “The Information Maneuver OCCFLD provides Marines the opportunity to continue doing what they are passionate about,” according to Lt. Gen. Matthew Glavy, Deputy Commandant for Information.“

• When you put people first and provide them the opportunity to pursue a career they are passionate about, they give back tenfold to the team and our mission of gaining advantage in the IE.”

• “Prior to the established of the Information Maneuver OCCFLD, Marines gained valuable experience and skills at a Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group or at combatant commands, only to go back to their previous MOS causing us to repeat the cycle again, never getting Marines with more than three years of experience across information related billets,” said Col. Jordan Walzer, Director, Information Maneuver Division, DC I and former CO, II MIG, II MEF.

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