Boeing and Leonardo have announced a partnership to pursue the U.S. Army’s Flight School Next contractor-owned, contractor-operated (COCO) service contract. The agreement combines Boeing’s experience with Army rotary-wing training and program delivery with Leonardo’s AW119T training helicopter. The companies said the proposal is intended to provide a scalable training model to support future Army aviator requirements.

Flight School Next is part of a broader U.S. Army effort to modernize Initial Entry Rotary-Wing training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Managed by Army Contracting Command–Redstone Arsenal, it is one of the largest contracts issued under a Commercial Solutions Opening, or CSO, competition. The program aims to shorten acquisition timelines and use commercial technologies to train b

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