The team comprised of the number one and number two defense contractors in the United States, Lockheed and Boeing, were beaten for the FLRAA contract by Bell Textron. Textron is ranked at between 14 and 39 in size, depending on what source you’re looking at.
Turns out, it doesn’t take massive resources to follow the instructions of an RFP and complete the requested deliverables, but it does require humility to accept feedback and make course corrections.
MOSA was never just about radios and mission equipment packages, its also about lower level mechanical and electrical subsystems of the vehicle itself.