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National Defense October 2005 Frank Colucci	Helicopter Fleet Features Mix of New, Refurbished Aircraft As a result of the heavy use of helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army will need more than 3,000 new or remanufactured attack, utility, cargo and special operations helicopters by 2020. Meanwhile, orders for UH-60 from 10 other countries are expected in 2005.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 John McHale	Boeing manned/unmanned light helicopter uses latest digital technology The A/MH-6X Little Bird is said to offer exciting new possibilities for an already outstanding platform. The most significant modifications are to the cockpit avionics and electrical systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John McHale	High-Fidelity COTS Technology Drives Flight Simulation Designers of flight training and simulation systems for military and commercial aviation depend on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and common standards to create high-fidelity solutions.
National Defense January 2005 Robert Williams	Unmanned `Little Bird' Could See Combat The Army is eyeing a modified MD 530F Little Bird helicopter, manufactured by the Boeing Company, that can be flown by remote control.
National Defense April 2010 Wright & Erwin	New Attitudes about UAVs Shape Army's Scout Helicopter Program The Army has tried unsuccessfully for decades to build a new scout helicopter to replace the aging Kiowa Warrior. After canceling two multibillion-dollar helicopter programs, the Army has decided that a conventional rotorcraft is no longer the answer.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Aircraft Fleet Modernization Gains Momentum During the next six years, the Army will procure 1,000 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. In addition, the service plans to restore 1,655 Black Hawks, Chinooks, and Apaches as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Aerial Drone Sensor Data Now Linked to Apache Helicopters A new communications link installed on Apache helicopters streams full-motion video into cockpits, which is giving pilots a more complete picture of what's happening in the complex urban landscapes where they fight
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	Boeing Selects Presagis Technology for Next-Generation Helicopter Simulator Boeing engineers are developing the Block III Apache Engineering Development Simulator (EDS), the virtual simulation of the Apache weapon system, using Lyra and ImaGen.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Scout Helicopter Competitors to Army: It's Time for a Flyoff Helicopter manufacturers have flexed their muscles and weighed in for a chance to replace the Army's aging scout helicopter fleet.
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons	More Drones Become Helicopter Sidekicks Troops can't seem to get enough of the aerial reconnaissance gathered by manned and unmanned aircraft, which has proven invaluable to them in recent conflicts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007	In Brief Boeing awarded contract for AH-64D Apache Longbows... Lockheed Martin wins contract for Inmarsat satellite network...
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts.
National Defense February 2009 Matthew Rusling	U.S. Special Operations Command Weighs Deployment of Armed Drones The Boeing A160T Hummingbird, originally a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is undergoing a series of tests at a Boeing Co. facility
National Defense January 2005 Frank Colucci	Sensors Aboard Helicopters Can Help Predict Parts Failures Health-and-usage monitoring systems (HUMS) now are in development for the Army's new UH-60M Black Hawk and Block III AH-64D Apache helicopters. HUMS help track the wear and tear of aircraft components.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale	Boeing selects Quantum3D solution for AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter simulator The Independence IDX 2500S ER Image Generator is equipped with several high-resolution out-the-window visual channels and QUEST enabled sensor simulation channels.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009	In Brief Savi provides DOD with RFID supply chain tracking technologies... Counterfeit electronic components standard issued by SAE International... BAE Systems opens Space Coast office for UAS, NASA support... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson	The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Retiring Kiowas Will Find Home in Law Enforcement The Army's OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter will see an active retirement when it is replaced by a future armed reconnaissance helicopter. After the war, they could end up in the hands of homeland security agencies.
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Taking Off Upgrades and a surge of new U.S. military orders should make the next 10 years a busy decade for rotorcraft manufacturers, according to a recent study by Forecast International Inc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale	U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture.
National Defense April 2008 Breanne Wagner	Army Pushes Forward With Troubled Scout Helicopter Despite a string of delays and billions of dollars in cost increases, the Army has regained confidence in its ARH-70A armed reconnaissance helicopter.
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson	Army Ponders Chinook Replacement As Upgrades Continue The F-models, which are produced at Boeing's Philadelphia factory, may be in service until 2040, or beyond. Yet the Army believes the time is now to begin looking at its future replacement.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	DRS set to build optoelectronic sensors for Arrowhead attack helicopter system The DRS Technologies Optronics unit in Palm Bay, Fla. is building the Apache's pilotage and targeting receiver assemblies under a contract from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando, Fla., the Arrowhead prime contractor.
National Defense July 2005 Frank Colucci	Helicopter Suppliers Must Modernize, Says Defense Industrial Policy Chief The Defense Department predicts that military helicopter suppliers will recover from the current slump in aircraft production if they invest in new manufacturing technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale	Boeing to Upgrade CV-22 Trainer with Virtual-Reality Enhancements Boeing and partner Bell Helicopter won a contract to upgrade the CV-22 Cabin Part Task Trainer (CPTT) with modifications including an aircrew flight simulator (AFS) that uses virtual-reality technology fused with video imagery.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	Manufacturers: Technology Will Make Rotorcraft Faster, Safer The Pentagon's investment in rotorcraft science and technology has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but companies have been tinkering around in their own shops trying to fill innovation gaps.
National Defense December 2003 Roxana Tiron	Unmanned Aircraft Adapting To Army Future Force Needs The Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate is testing technologies and concepts that would allow helicopters to remotely control unmanned aerial vehicles.
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna	Industry Yearns for Scout Helicopter Competition The Army has all but canceled its armed aerial scout helicopter competition to replace the Kiowa Warrior, but some rotorcraft manufacturers are holding out hope that the service will decide to purchase a new aircraft.
National Defense March 2006 Stew Magnuson	Urban Conflicts Shape New Recon Helicopter Col. Mark Hayes and Lt. Col. Neil Thurgood are brimming with confidence while facing a Herculean task. Their mission is to develop and deploy a new, armed reconnaissance helicopter within four years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 John McHale	New electronic system seeks to speed attack helicopter response time on the battlefield The new initiative involves shortening the "kill chain" for the Apache helicopter, which Army leaders want finished in less than a year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009	In Brief Lockheed Martin delivers first Target Sight System production unit to U.S. Marine Corps... Raytheon demonstrates next-generation antenna technology during test flight... etc.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Ghost of Comanche Haunts Army Helicopter Leaders as They Push for New Models Army Aviation officers want a family of new helicopters. Not now, but 20 years from now. Two decades may sound like a long time - but its is not when developing Army rotary wing aircraft.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops.
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	U.S. Helicopter Suppliers Fear Losing Innovation War The military helicopter business is booming, but the industry mostly is making money fixing up and maintaining the Army's aging fleet. Hardly any Pentagon contracts these days pursue new aircraft designs.
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons	Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission.
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army Learns Tough Lessons From Armed Helicopter Letdown The price tag that the Army initially had estimated for its Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter has doubled.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale	Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army on a Fast Track to Build its Own High-Tech Air Force The Army soon will begin deploying larger quantities of remotely piloted high-tech surveillance aircraft.
National Defense December 2011 Dan Parsons	Army's Restored Combat Choppers Fly Like New Without a viable replacement for the aging OH-58 Kiowa Warriors, the Army has found that gutting and rebuilding older airframes might do the trick and could cost significantly less than buying a new aircraft and building new support systems.
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army's Vow to Use Proven Technologies Falls Short With one test flight crash, two major delays, cost overruns and Congress threatening to zero out its budget, the armed reconnaissance helicopter has been tagged with the "troubled program" label.
National Defense April 2012 Stew Magnuson	After 50 Years, There Is No End in Sight for the Chinook April will mark the 50th anniversary of when the service received the first delivery of the twin-rotor, heavy-lift chopper. And of all the aircraft its manufacturer The Boeing Co. has produced since 1910, the Chinook is by far the company's longest lasting, and most enduring product.
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National Defense April 2009 Matthew Rusling	With No Replacement in Sight, Army's Oldest Helos Keep Going The Army's oldest and busiest scout helicopters were supposed to be retired by now. Instead, maintenance crews scramble to keep them operating around the clock -- in two theaters of war.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	Army wants ideas from industry on new avionics for manned and unmanned helicopters The Army is asking industry for ideas on how companies and Army agencies could work together to develop and demonstrate new helicopter avionics concepts.