Welcome to the new Vertical Lift Consortium website. The folks at ATI helped revamp the site to make it more attractive, more accessible and to help it become a cutting edge resource for the vertical lift industry. It has a new look and feel, more comprehensive search capabilities and more user friendly, intuitive site navigation. The website features a calendar of industry events, member company spotlights, new member profiles, program news, and future funding opportunities under our Other Transaction Agreement. We’ve also revised the Members Only site to include improved search capabilities so that you can more easily find past meeting and event information, and company specific drop boxes that allow for private storage and submittal of proprietary information.
The improved VLC public website and members-only sections are the first steps in our efforts to work more effectively with our customers to provide vertical lift solutions to our warfighters. Our ultimate vision is for the VLC to become the cohesive national resource that Government customers can use to find innovative technologies, fill critical vertical lift needs, invigorate the U.S. industrial base, and retain our international competitive edge.
Whether you are currently a member of the VLC or are contemplating membership, we hope that you will find this new web site a useful resource. We look forward to the future of the VLC and believe these changes will help to move us toward our goal of being the collective voice of the vertical lift industry to our government customers.
Nick Lappos
Chairman of the Vertical Lift Consortium Board of Directors
Lockheed Martin/ Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Class: OEMs
AVX Aircraft Company
Class: Small VTOL
University of Maryland
Class: Academic/Nonprofit
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Class: Large Contractor
Vertical Flight Society (VFS)
Class: VFS
Collins Aerospace
Class: Suppliers
Georgia Tech
Class: Academic/Nonprofit
JHNA
Class: Other Contractor
The Boeing Company
Class: Large OEMs
BAE Systems
Class: Large Contractor
Bell Textron
Class: Large OEMs
Parker Ostovich & Associates
Class: Other Contractor
EFW / Elbit Systems
Class: Supplier
Rolls-Royce
Class: Engine
Nick Lappos Chairman
John Piasecki Vice-Chairman
Paul Dudley Secretary/Treasurer
Rudolph Ostovich Committee Member
John Piasecki
Paul Dudley
Jason Propes
John Stough
Michael Thome
Paul Dudley