“The timeline has changed,” said Ryan Ehinger, SVP MV-75 FLRAA at Bell. [it’s] accelerating delivery of prototypes into the test program to get more test data more quickly,” said Ehinger. “It’s also on the production side, accelerating the timeline to deliver the first production aircraft, and then also accelerating the production rate — the ramp rate.”Ehinger said there is “a lot of great senior leader support” for acceleration. That approval also marked the program’s transition into engineering and manufacturing development, with Bell expecting to wrap up “the vast majority” of the engineering work this summer. The MV-75 received its official designation last month, having originally been dubbed the V-280 Valor by Bell.