Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor won the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition. “In denying the protest, GAO concluded that the Army reasonably evaluated Sikorsky’s proposal as technically unacceptable because Sikorsky failed to provide the level of architectural detail required by the [request for proposal] RFP,” Kenneth Patton, the managing associate general counsel for procurement law at GAO, wrote in a short statement sent out today. Connecticut lawmakers will continue to rail against the Army’s decision and possibly block FLRAA funding in the years to come