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Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY25 | $1.25B |
| FY26 | $1.25B |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|
| Enacted | $1.25B | |
| Request | $1.25B | $1.25B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development
This funding line directly aligns to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Army modernization priority. FVL is an initiative to develop a family of vertical lift aircraft for the United States Armed Forces. The Department of Defense (DOD) established FVL to focus vertical lift capabilities and technology development as well as retain long-term industrial base capabilities. The Deputy Secretary of Defense issued the FVL Strategic Plan in 2012 to outline a joint approach for the next generation vertical lift aircraft for all military services. The Strategic Plan provided a foundation for replacing the current fleet with advanced capability by shaping the development of vertical lift aircraft for the next 25 to 40 years. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, the Army identified FVL as one of the Army's six modernization priorities and established the FVL Cross Functional Team (CFT). The FVL objectives are increased vertical lift maneuverability, range, speed, payload, survivability, and reliability while reducing the logistics footprint. This capability will provide critical vertical lift aviation capability in multi-domain operations to the joint warfighter and maneuver force. The Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) weapon system provides Combatant Commanders with deterrence, power projection, and tactical capabilities at operational and strategic distances. The Army competitively awarded the weapon system development contract in December 2022, using a hybrid acquisition approach. FLRAA integrates advanced technologies, using a modular open systems approach, and design configurations with appropriate trades to ensure affordability. In FY 2025, funding previously planned in PE 0603801A (Aviation - Adv Dev) / Project B47 (Future Vertical Lift) transitioned to Budget Activity 6.5 PE 0605241A (Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development)/ Project DG5 (Future Long Range Assault Aircraft) for execution of Engineering and Manufacturing Development and to support Budget Activity guidance for programs achieving Milestone B.
Mission — Future Long Range Assault Aircraft
The Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Project's funding provides Combatant Commanders with deterrence, power projection, and tactical capabilities at operational and strategic distances. FLRAA will retain the Army's ability to project combat power with significantly increased range, speed, mobility, and payload over current Army and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) aircraft. FLRAA is the next generation vertical lift aircraft designed to conduct air assault, urban assault/security, maritime interdiction, medical evacuation, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, tactical resupply, direct action, noncombatant evacuation operations, and combat search and rescue operations. FLRAA will support the Army, including Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and the Joint Force, in a contested, near peer threat environment. In FY 2024, FLRAA achieved a successful Milestone B decision allowing the program to enter into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase. In FY 2025, funding previously planned in PE 0603801A (Aviation - Adv Dev) / Project B47 (Future Vertical Lift) transitioned to Budget Activity 6.5 PE 0605241A (Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development)/ Project DG5 (Future Long Range Assault Aircraft) for execution of Engineering and Manufacturing Development and to support Budget Activity guidance for programs achieving Milestone B. The FY 2026 budget request funds design updates, continues Prototype and Limited User Test (LUT) aircraft manufacturing, initiates testing, begins production planning, and continues refinement of a digital backbone architected to meet Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) objectives.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Weapon System Development
Execution of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the Acquisition Cycle. This includes developmental engineering, prototype manufacturing, test and qualification, supportability planning, systems engineering and program management activities.
FLRAA MEDEVAC Development and Integration
The FLRAA MEDEVAC program involves designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting MEDEVAC mission equipment for the FLRAA. This includes designing platform provisions to facilitate the rapid installation of the MEDEVAC Mission Equipment Package (MEP). The MEP comprises a sensor capable of visually acquiring casualties when vision is obscured, and a modular, adjustable, and reconfigurable Patient Handling System (PHS) with supplemental cabin temperature control if necessary. The aim is to create a MEDEVAC aircraft capable of quickly reaching, evacuating, and providing enroute critical care to patients on the future battlefield.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $1.25B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $1.25B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.25B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $1.25B |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $1.25B | $1.25B | $1.25B |
| DG5: Future Long Range Assault Aircraft | $1.25B | $1.25B | $1.25B |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| BELL TEXTRON INC | W58RGZ23C0001 | medium |
| BT3 TECHNOLOGY SERVICES | W58RGZ20F0252 | medium |
| CHELTON LIMITED | W58RGZ25P0015 | medium |
| SMARTRONIX, LLC | W58RGZ22F0265 | medium |
| TORCH TECHNOLOGIES INC | W58RGZ23F0089 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
GAO oversight of this program
GAO assessed Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) in its June 2025 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, as an Army MDAP program.
“FLRAA is part of the Future Vertical Lift portfolio of systems, a top modernization priority for the Army. It is intended to be a medium-sized assault and utility aircraft and deliver speed, range, agility, endurance, and sustainability improvements as compared with current Black Hawk helicopters. The Army also expects the program to provide combatant commanders with tactical capabilities at operational and strategic distances. The Army completed FLRAA's MTA rapid prototyping effort and transitioned the program to the MCA pathway in July 2024.”
GAO-25-107569, p. 93 — the assessment page in GAO’s 2025 report
Earlier editions of the same assessment: June 2024 · June 2023
GAO assessed Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) in its June 2024 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, as an Army MTA program.
“FLRAA is part of the Future Vertical Lift portfolio of systems, a top modernization priority for the Army. It is intended to be a medium-sized assault and utility aircraft and deliver speed, range, agility, endurance, and sustainability improvements as compared to current Black Hawk helicopters. The Army also expects the program to provide combatant commanders with tactical capabilities at operational and strategic distances. The Army initiated FLRAA using the MTA rapid prototyping pathway in October 2020 to develop two virtual prototypes.”
GAO-24-106831, p. 107 — the assessment page in GAO’s 2024 report
GAO assessed Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) in its June 2023 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, as an Army MTA program.
“FLRAA is part of the Future Vertical Lift portfolio of systems, a top modernization priority for the Army. It is intended to be a medium-sized assault and utility rotorcraft, to deliver speed, range, agility, endurance, and sustainability improvements as compared with current Black Hawk helicopters. The Army also expects the program to provide combatant commanders with tactical capabilities at operational and strategic distances. The Army initiated FLRAA using the MTA rapid prototyping pathway in October 2020 to develop two virtual prototypes.”
GAO-23-106059, p. 119 — the assessment page in GAO’s 2023 report
GAO assessed the program, not this budget line. Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development is one of the lines that funds it, and GAO’s work above says nothing about this line’s own figures. Which line each GAO item attaches to is a hand-ratified crosswalk — how it was checked.
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development. GAO's program-level work on this line is above. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
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Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,938 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →
What it is
- Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Development (program element 0605241A) is a U.S. Army development program funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account.
- The program directly aligns to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Army modernization priority, an initiative to develop a family of vertical-lift aircraft for the U.S. Armed Forces and to retain long-term industrial-base capabilities.
- The Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) is the next-generation vertical-lift aircraft designed to conduct air assault, urban assault and security, maritime interdiction, medical evacuation, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, tactical resupply, direct action, noncombatant evacuation, and combat search and rescue in a contested, near-peer threat environment.
- FLRAA is intended to give Combatant Commanders deterrence, power projection, and tactical capabilities at operational and strategic distances, with significantly increased range, speed, mobility, and payload over current Army and Special Operations Command aircraft.
- The Army competitively awarded the FLRAA weapon-system development contract in December 2022 using a hybrid acquisition approach, and the aircraft integrates advanced technologies using a modular open systems approach with design trades to ensure affordability.
- A dedicated MEDEVAC effort designs, develops, and integrates medical-evacuation mission equipment for FLRAA, including a Mission Equipment Package with a casualty-acquisition sensor and a modular, reconfigurable Patient Handling System to provide en-route critical care on the future battlefield.
Why it matters
- The program's total funding is roughly flat year over year, moving from $1,253,637 thousand in FY2025 to $1,248,544 thousand (about $1.25 billion) requested for FY2026.
- That is a small year-over-year decrease of $5,093 thousand (about $5.1 million) from FY2025 to FY2026.
- The entire FY2026 request of $1,248,544 thousand is discretionary funding; there is no reconciliation (mandatory) component in this program element.
- The FY2026 budget request funds design updates, continues manufacturing of Prototype and Limited User Test (LUT) aircraft, initiates testing, begins production planning, and continues refinement of a digital backbone architected to meet Modular Open System Approach objectives.
- In FY2024, FLRAA achieved a successful Milestone B decision, allowing the program to enter the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase.
- In FY2025, funding previously planned in PE 0603801A (Aviation - Advanced Development), Project B47 (Future Vertical Lift), transitioned into this program element's Project DG5 to execute Engineering and Manufacturing Development after the Milestone B decision.
Key players
- The program is run by the U.S. Army, with funding drawn from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army appropriation.
- The Army established a Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team (CFT) after identifying FVL as one of the Army's six modernization priorities in FY 2017, and the effort traces to the Deputy Secretary of Defense's 2012 FVL Strategic Plan outlining a joint approach for the services' next generation of vertical-lift aircraft.
- FLRAA is intended to support the Army, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and the Joint Force, reflecting the program's cross-service user community.
Primary sources
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Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · M158
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · L149
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
RDTE - Vol 3 - Budget Activity 5A · www.asafm.army.mil