Team FLRAA Industrial Base Impact

Tilt rotor is a phenomenal technology. It's what Bell brings to the table far and above what anybody else brings, but in order to do that, you have to have the industrial base there to support it. So consequently, as Bell and FLRAA go forward, the industrial base will as well. MV-75 FLRAA - while this is gonna be huge, this program represents really a clean sheet, all digitally designed, a leap forward in technology, both from an engineering standpoint and then also leveraging a lot of the manufacturing technologies. It's really a step function change for the industrial base and we're really looking forward to what that does for producibility going forward. One of the things I really love about Team FLRAA is it's really homegrown the best of the best within the United States. A lot of vertical integration in Bell itself. It made me very happy when I walk around Bell to see all the manufacturing advances that we've seen. Bell's made tremendous investments starting back in 2013, but we've invested in facility for a weapon systems integration lab that is gonna be so key as we look at the digital backbone, the modular open systems approach, the digital fly by wire systems that we've got. But we've also got a drive system test lab. We've got a manufacturing technology center. We've got a fuselage assembly center where we will be vertically integrating in and building up the fuselage assemblies. So tremendous activity and tremendous investment on behalf of Bell and also our Team FLRAA teammates in their own organizations to stand up and get ready for what's about to come. It is a national effort, right? So there's suppliers in virtually every single state in the nation. The supply chain goes multiple layers down. We're very proud and very elated to be part of Team FLRAA. This is a pathfinder program for Army and absolutely for army aviation. This is the first time Army aviation's created a brand new platform in a long time and the industry is kind of in the same position. So being part of something at the tip of the spear that's leading the way, both in capability but also in approach to get something out that's affordable, sustainable and capable is very, very important to us. Collins is and has been committed in our technical roadmaps to aligning with army aviation with the intent of making the next generation army aviation aircraft more capable and connected than ever before. And we're bringing 10,000 engineers and $4 billion in annual R&D to the fight. Rolls Royce has made significant investments in assuring that we can deliver propulsion system for FLRAA, with over 600 million invested in manufacturing, 400 million invested in test facilities, and we're also deeply committed to ensuring our American workforce is ready. And we've also continued to invest in the AE family of engines to ensure we provide state-of-the-art modern propulsion solutions. It's not just providing components to an aircraft, it's providing a system. So we actually have an entire system integration lab that we built out that we use to really test out and prove out all of the different parts of the system before we're delivering that to Bell. There are tens of thousands of people across the globe that support this program. Many suppliers that we work with that are very excited to be a part of our tilt rotor solutions. And we have Bell employees across the globe supporting as far as manufacturing and delivery. And so we're very proud of what we get to do with that.