Good morning all. I can speak from personal expreience on Raytheon and URS as far as their involvement with the pilot training quoted. Both of thes companies won these contracts and don't use their own aircraft.
Raytheon subcontracts to flight schools to train their students.
URS uses US Army aircraft to train the students.
They are both lucrative contracts but do not involve "the company" providing their own training aircraft or their own training program.
I spent 10 years at URS training helicopter pilots and am now currently teaching at the school where Raytheon is involved.
My point is: You don't need to have your own an airframe to compete for these lucrative contracts.
I can just imagine the profit margin for a company that owned their airframes and had their own training program and syllabus.
I am a shareholder of TADF and am looking for them to come up with their own training program. I wish I could see their plans for this.