December 13th, 2013 defencetalk.com (AFP)

Long disliked by the US Air Force, the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet may finally be heading for the chopping block due to budget constraints.

The “Warthog,” first designed as a tank buster to target Soviet armored vehicles in the middle of the Cold War in the early 1970s, is shunned by many aviators.

Although the twin-engine aircraft is slow, it is incredibly efficient to provide close air support of ground forces, making it an appreciated asset for the US Army.

But the US Air Force “never had a whole lot of interest in a subsonic close-air support plane,” explained Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with consulting firm Teal Group.

“This is a plane for large land combat engagements and for the foreseeable future, you probably won’t face too many of those and there’s also the budget pressure.”

The US Air Force had tried several times since the end of the Cold War to scrap a large part of its A-10 fleet but then gave up in the face of a series of unexpected deployments, such as the Gulf War and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Just because they’ve had this long-standing dislike for the A-10 doesn’t mean that they aren’t right this time,” said Aboulafia.

The Defense Department faces $1 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade, half of them due to automatic reductions in spending known as sequestration.

The US Air Force alone needs to save $12 billion in 2014, according to the service’s Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh.

So by 2015, the Air Force plans to part ways with its entire A-10 fleet — 326 aircraft — hoping to save $3.7 billion in the process.

“It is the best airplane in the world at what it does,” Welsh told lawmakers, noting he had flown the aircraft himself for a “thousand” hours.

But “if we’re going to look at what we must divest, not what we want to divest, but what we must divest, we have to be very honest with ourselves inside the Air Force about how much we can afford,” he added.

The problem with the A-10, which sports a heavy rotary cannon, is that it is limited to its only capacity to support ground missions, a big drawback compared to multi-mission aircraft such as the F-15 or F-16.

“If we have platforms that can do multiple missions well and maybe not do one as well as another airplane, the airplane that is limited to a specific type of mission area becomes the one most at risk,” Welsh said.

“You only gain major savings if you cut an entire fleet.”

Speaking Thursday before the American Enterprise Institute think-tank in Washington, Welsh stressed that to make the same savings of $3.7 billion, “we would have to shut down three to four times as many F-16s squadrons as we do A-10s.”

“If that’s the case, we can’t do the mission,” he added.

The A-10 also only makes less than 30 percent of sorties for close air support missions.

F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters currently contribute to such missions and the F-35 — the Pentagon’s main armament program — is due to participate in the future.

“Historical animosity,” however, has seen the Army try to halt the Air Force’s plans, Aboulafia said.

“The A-10 is the best close air support platform we have today,” Welsh’s counterpart in the Army, General Ray Odierno, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in November.

“It’s performed incredibly well in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Three dozen senators and lawmakers from both main parties wrote to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last month noting their “deep concern” over plans to scrap the A-10 in their respective states.

“We oppose any effort that would divest the A-10, creating a CAS (close air support) capability gap that would reduce Air Force combat power and unnecessarily endanger our service members in future conflicts,” they wrote.

The letter was led by Senators Kelly Ayotte, Mark Pryor, Saxby Chambliss and Claire McCaskill, along with Representatives Ron Barber and Jack Kingston. It was also signed by nine other senators and 18 other representatives.

Ayotte has proposed an amendment to the 2014 budget law seeking to delay until at least 2022 the A-10 fleet’s retirement.

Dec 12, 2013 ASDNews Source : Lockheed Martin Corporation

The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) team successfully completed the government’s Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA), an important milestone on the path to vehicle production at the company’s Camden, Ark., manufacturing complex.

The MRA, which measures manufacturing maturity and assesses technical risk, took place at Lockheed Martin’s Camden Operations on Nov. 18 and 19. In October, the company announced plans to produce the JLTV at the award-winning Camden facility, where program officials expect to gain significant production efficiencies and cost reductions.

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Dec 10, 2013 ASDNews Source : Raytheon Corporation

    Collaborative system to protect ships against swarming-boat threat

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), acting through its Missile Systems business, and Chemring Group (LSE: CHG), acting through Chemring Countermeasures, successfully fired a Javelin missile from the multirole CENTURION® launcher during testing at the Defence Training Estate on Salisbury Plain in England.

"We're bringing an entirely new dimension to ship self-defense by providing a sea-based, inside-the-horizon platform protection," said Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems' Naval and Area Mission Defense product line. "Chemring's CENTURION launcher, when coupled with Raytheon's combat-proven missiles, offers an evolutionary capability to defeat surface threats with this One System-Multiple Missions technology."

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 10 (UPI)

BAE Systems has gained eligibility to compete for task orders to provide various support services for the U.S. Army's space and missile defense programs.

The services, for the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Army Forces Strategic Command, will be delivered under a three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a total value of as much as $220 million.

BAE Systems said the contract is called the Test Execution Services and Launch Augmentation award, or TESTLA and is designed to help the Army meet testing objectives in areas such as integrated missile defense, warfighter weapon development, homeland security, cyber technology, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

Four other companies also have been awarded the contract, under which they will compete for task orders.

"Winning TESTLA builds on our long-standing relationship with SMDC," said Tom White, senior director of Mission Support Solutions at BAE Systems. "The work will also position us for additional growth in the military space market."

BAE Systems has provided engineering and technical services under SMDC's Concepts and Operations for Space and Missile Defense Integration Capabilities contract since 2006.

WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 10 (UPI)

Beechcraft Defense Co. and FlightSafety International have completed deliveries of ground-based T-6 pilot training devices to the U.S. military.

The last of 131 units produced for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System was delivered to the U.S. Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.

"We're proud to be able to say that all student pilots for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are trained in Beechcraft T-6 aircraft and the T-6 simulators produced in a partnership between Beechcraft and FlightSafety," said Russ Bartlett, president of Beechcraft Defense. "It's been an impressive partnership: every single T-6 aircrew training device has been delivered on time and on budget."

The T-6 is a single-engine turboprop based on Pilatus of Switzerland's PC-9. It is used by the U.S. military and the armed forces of Canada, Mexico, Greece, Israel and Morocco, among others.

The T-6 training devices by Beechcraft and FlightSafety replicate the aircraft's cockpit layout and aircraft performance.

Additional details on the training devices were not provided.

OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 10, 2013 /CNW

Portability supports replay and analysis of recorded acoustic data immediately following maritime patrol missions, anywhere in the world.

General Dynamics Canada has delivered the first of three deployable fast-time analysis systems for the CP-140 Aurora Maritime Patrol Aircraft. The portable system, designed to fit through the crew door of the CP-140 aircraft, can be deployed with the aircraft for missions away from the main operating base in Canada and allows ground crews immediate access to post-flight analysis of critical acoustic data, confirming and classifying targets.

"Wherever in the world Canada's Aurora is called to action, crews can easily transport this system and allow ground crews to replay and analyze recorded acoustic information as soon as the aircraft lands," said David Ibbetson, vice president, General Dynamics C4 Systems International. "This time-critical access to recorded acoustic data supports command-level decision making as target identities are confirmed, classified and characterized in the field. The replay capability, at speeds more than eight times faster than normal, enables mission reconstruction and debriefing as well as providing the opportunity for onsite crew training immediately following missions."

In Canada the system is referred to as the Deployable Modular VME Acoustic Signal Processor (MVASP) Post Processing and Archiving System or D-MPPAS; it makes up part of the ground equipment for the Aurora Incremental Modernization Program (AIMP). Internationally, the system will be sold under the name Acoustic Replay & Intelligence Exploitation System, or ARIES.

General Dynamics Canada is the prime integrator of the Aurora mission system and provides integrated hardware and software systems that enable the aircraft's capabilities in a variety of roles, including search and rescue, airborne command and control, surface and sub-surface maritime, overland and coastal surveillance operations. General Dynamics Canada is also providing ground support equipment, including a software integration lab, pre- and post-mission analysis tools, and training facilities, as well as long-term in-service support (ISS).

General Dynamics Canada is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). For information about General Dynamics Canada please go to www.gdcanada.com.

SOURCE General Dynamics Canada

10.12.2013 Romandie.com (ats)

Les Etats-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne ont aussi espionné les plates-formes de jeux en ligne comme "World of Warcraft". Ces pays l'ont fait par crainte de voir des extrémistes les utiliser pour planifier des attentats, a affirmé lundi le quotidien "New York Times".

Des espions créent des personnages dans ces jeux très populaires. Ils peuvent ainsi recruter des informateurs, selon le journal qui s'appuie sur des documents transmis par Edward Snowden, l'ancien consultant de l'Agence de sécurité nationale américaine (NSA), réfugié à Moscou.

"Les documents montrent que des agents du renseignement, craignant que des réseaux terroristes ou criminels n'utilisent ces jeux pour communiquer secrètement, transférer de l'argent ou planifier des attentats, ont pris position dans ces mondes peuplés d'avatars numériques qui incluent des elfes, des gnomes ou des top-modèles", note le New York Times.

"Les jeux et les mondes virtuels ouvrent de nombreuses possibilités", explique la NSA dans ces documents datés d'il y a cinq ans.

Collecter des données

"Nous savons que les terroristes utilisent les nombreuses possibilités d'Internet, comme les courriels, les chats, les proxies ou les forums, pour des opérations futures. Il est très probable qu'ils utilisent les moyens de communication offerts par les jeux et ces environnements virtuels", poursuit le rapport cité par le quotidien américain, par le qutodien britannique "The Guardian" et le site américain d'informations en ligne "ProPublica".

"Les espions ont créé des personnages pour fouiner et essayer de recruter des informateurs, tout en collectant des données et le contenu de communications entre joueurs", ajoute le rapport.

Des subterfuges

"Les militants se servent souvent de subterfuges dignes de jeux vidéos -fausses identités, voix, messageries instantanées- pour conclure des transactions financières, et les espions américains et britanniques craignent qu'ils n'opèrent dans ces jeux", reprend le quotidien.

Il cite notamment "America's Army", un jeu de tirs conçu par l'armée américaine et téléchargeable gratuitement sur son site Internet. "Ce jeu est si bon pour identifier des futurs recrues qu'il est utilisé comme exercice d'entraînement", avance le rapport. Le Hezbollah aurait créé le même type de jeu pour recruter et entraîner de futurs candidats aux attentats-suicides.

09.12.2013 Helen Chachaty - journal-aviation.com

Le commandant de l’aviation royale canadienne, le lieutenant-général Yvan Blondin, a déclaré jeudi 5 décembre que le gouvernement canadien allait devoir prendre une décision sur l’achat ou non de chasseurs F-35 Joint Strike Fighter d’ici 2015. « Les F-18 sont encore bons jusqu’en 2025, mais disons que j’ai besoin d’une décision d’ici deux ans. Il y a un moment, le gouvernement va devoir trancher et décider s’il achète des F-35 ou non et s’il débarque du programme ou non », a-t-il déclaré au Journal de l’Aviation en marge de sa visite en Corse sur la BA 126 à l’occasion de l’exercice interalliés Serpentex.

Le CEMAA canadien a également révélé que l’analyse menée sur cinq potentiels chasseurs était toujours en cours et que les conclusions devraient être remises au gouvernement « dans les prochaines semaines, avant les fêtes ». Quant à la décision finale du gouvernement, le lieutenant-général ne s’est pas avancé, se contenant de rappeler que « c’est le gouvernement qui prend les décisions, c’est lui qui dira si on continue avec le F-35, si on achète un nouvel avion basé sur notre analyse ou si on décide de les mettre en compétition ».

Le gouvernement canadien fait face depuis plus d’un an à d’intenses discussions sur le choix d’équiper l’armée de l’air du F-35 Joint Strike Fighter de Lockheed Martin. Partenaire du programme, le Canada a pourtant demandé en mars 2013 à Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Eurofighter, Dassault Aviation et Saab de lui envoyer des informations sur les capacités opérationnelles des chasseurs produits par ces avionneurs. Les options restent ouvertes et le Canada n’a donc pris encore aucune décision officielle et comme le rappelle le lieutenant-général Yvan Blondin, « le Canada n’a pas signé de contrat d’achat, on a pour l’instant uniquement signifié notre intention d’acheter 65 avions il y a quelques années ».

D’un point de vue industriel, la question est sans doute un véritable casse-tête pour le gouvernement canadien, car, étant partenaire, le pays a donc obtenu contrats de développement qui font travailler l’industrie locale, ainsi que le rappelle le commandant de l’armée de l’air : « C’est un programme assez compliqué, mais parce qu’on en fait partie, on a accès aux contrats de développement, ce qui impacte donc sur notre industrie aéronautique. Si le Canada décide de ne pas acheter de F-35, les contrats tombent pour l’industrie canadienne et c’est ça que le gouvernement doit prendre en considération. »

La question est donc encore loin d’être réglée et devrait encore occasionner de nombreuses discussions au sein même du gouvernement avant d’être tranchée de manière définitive.

Time To Go: US Army OH-58D Kiowa helicopters are staged in South Korea before inspection in October. The Army has wanted to replace the helicopters with a new armed aerial scout, but now has plans to use Apaches to temporarily fill their role. (US Army)

Dec. 8, 2013 - By PAUL McLEARY and MICHELLE TAN – Defense NEWS

New Missions for Apaches, Black Hawks

WASHINGTON — US Army leaders are considering scrapping its entire fleet of Bell Helicopter OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopters, while pulling the National Guard’s Boeing AH-64 Apaches into the active-duty force to fill the scout helicopter role as the Army seeks to fulfill its longer-term requirement of a newly developed armed aerial scout, according to several Army and defense industry sources.

The plan also calls for giving active Black Hawk helicopters to the Guard, while taking half of the Guard’s Lakota fleet, using them as active-duty trainers and scrapping its Jet Rangers.

While a final decision has yet to be made, the industry sources had the impression that the deal was all but done.

The deal would be done in the interest of cutting costs and reducing the number of different helicopter types in the Army, but questions remain about the affordability of using the Apache to fill the scout role. Army leadership had already rejected the idea in the early 1990s in favor of the now-canceled Comanche, and expressed doubts about it in a 2011 analysis of alternatives (AoA) document.

The December 2011 AoA for the Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) program — which until last year was envisioned as the eventual replacement for the Kiowa — concluded that fielding the AH-64D Block III to the service’s armed reconnaissance squadrons to replace the Kiowa would be “at least 50 percent more expensive than the currently programmed [recon squadrons].”

The Army also concluded that the AH-64 requires “significantly more maintenance personnel than the other mixes analyzed.”

What’s more, a study conducted by the Logistics Management Institute recently estimated that in recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the Army used an Apache in the Kiowa scout role, it would have cost an additional $4 billion in fuel, maintenance and operating costs.

Still, “the Army is in a difficult position,” one defense industry source said. The Armed Aerial Scout AoA “said that the most affordable and capable option was Kiowa linked with the Shadow UAV. But the AoA also said that the most capable immediate solution is an Apache, so there’s two sides of this argument. So the Army really is making decisions around cost.”

“This is a budget-driven plan,” said Col. Frank Tate, the Army’s chief of aviation force development. “We are in a fiscally constrained environment, which requires us to make hard choices, but we need to also make smart choices. In developing this plan, everything was on the table.”

Tate added that “if we go with the overall plan, it would save approximately $1 billion a year in direct operating and sustainment cost. However, that does not take into account the savings in the out-years by divesting the OH-58Ds, OH-58A/Cs and TH-67s [trainers] from the Army aviation fleet.”

Once the Army divests itself of its 338 active-duty and 30 National Guard Kiowas and pulls Apaches from the National Guard, the service will then provide the Guard with Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in order to give the Guard more capability as it conducts its homeland defense and disaster response missions.

The Army has 570 Apaches, while the Guard has 192 and the Army Reserve has 48, according to information provided by the service.

The goal is to have a total of 690 AH-64E Apaches in the Army, officials said, while the Guard and reserve will have no Apaches of any model.

The Guard is also expected to gain 111 Black Hawks from the active duty, while the reserve will receive 48, and the end-state calls for 1,033 Black Hawk helicopters in the active Army, 960 in the Guard and 142 in the reserve.

But the plan isn’t sitting so well with everyone in the Guard.

Col. Tim Marsano, spokesman for the Idaho National Guard, wrote in an email that “losing the Apaches would entail a significant loss of manning, combat capability and a long tradition of combat aviation in the Idaho Army National Guard. We would like to keep this mission.”

Part of the plan also entails retiring the active-duty Bell TH-67 Jet Ranger training helicopters being used at Fort Rucker, Ala., and moving about 100 EADS UH-72 Lakotas from the active Army and 104 of the Guard’s 212 Lakotas to Alabama for this purpose.

The proposed plan gives the Army some flexibility in determining what it can cut and how it can maintain critical aviation capability, Tate said.

The plan “streamlines the fleet by divesting older model airframes,” he added. This will “result in substantial savings over time. Our other option is to just eliminate force structure, which would require us to divest some of our aircraft that we want to keep and result in reduced capability.”

Decades of Trying

The Army has been trying to build a new light reconnaissance helicopter since 1982, when it kicked off the Light Helicopter Experimental program to replace the Vietnam-era Kiowa.

Eventually christened the Comanche in the early 1990s, the program never really found its footing in the halls of the Pentagon, leading then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to finally kill it off in 2004 after it had burned through about $7 billion worth of investments.

Over the past several years it began to look hopeful that after 30 years of trying, the Army would be able to finally upgrade its aerial scout fleet. In 2010, the defense industry jumped at the chance to build a new bird, and AgustaWestland, Boeing, EADS and Bell Helicopter began readying designs for the new armed aerial scout.

During the spring and summer of 2012, the Army conducted a series of what it called “fly-offs,” where Army leaders visited all of the competitors interested in bidding on the work to check in on their progress and their designs.

Nothing much came from the meetings, and by May 2012, Lt. Gen. William Phillips, the top acquisition adviser to the Army secretary, claimed that the results of the industry visits were a disappointment.

“We didn’t find a single aircraft that was out there that could meet the Army’s requirements, so if we were to go forward with an armed aerial scout it would essentially be a development program,” he said.

Asked if the Army has communicated to industry its plans for future development of the AAS requirement, one industry source said that “to my knowledge, we’re nowhere close to that. Sequester hit and the budget drills hit, and there’s been no communication outside of the Army on what their plans for an armed aerial scout may be.”

After releasing its original request for information in 2010, the Army said it was looking at an average procurement unit cost of $13 million to $15 million for a new armed aerial scout. But developing a new helicopter with a fielding target of 2022 would cost about $12 million, contingent on requirements.

That investment spread out over several years “would at least get you to the point where you have actionable data” about what capabilities are viable, one industry source said.

“To move to the Apache in the absence of that information takes options away from the Army that they would ordinarily have,” the source added.

There remains the question of what the Army will do with the more than 300 Kiowa aircraft that it is divesting.

A priority will be put on any needs that the other services may have first, said Col. Jong Lee, of the service’s acquisition, logistics, and technology directorate, followed by the Civil Air Patrol, law enforcement, and then foreign military sales.

Although the Kiowa program kicked off in 1969, the Kiowa Warriors being used today were built from 1985 onward. The entire fleet has been completely reset and remachined over the past decade, with the upgrade program ending in 2011.

06/12/2013 Par Duncan Macrae – Air & Cosmos

Ce sont nos confrèrers d’Aviation Week qui lèvent le voile sur un nouveau « black program » américain. Northrop Grumman et l’US Air Force mèneraient dans le plus grand secret sur la base d’essais classifiée de Groom Lake dans le Nevada — la fameuse Zone 51 —des travaux de développement d’un nouveau drone furtif conçu pour des missions dites « ISR » pour renseignement, surveillance et reconnaissance.

L’objectif serait de développer un successeur au SR-71, retiré du service en 1998 et toujours pas remplacé. Il s’agit de disposer d’un appareil capable de mener des missions ISR en environnement hostile (« denied airspace »). Un Global Hawk furtif en quelque sorte.

En matière de signature radar, l’appareil, une aile volante à double flèche de la taille approximative d’un Global Hawk, serait largement supérieur aux F-117, F-22 et F-35.

En fait le RQ-180 trouve ses origines dans l’échec du programme J-UCAS, lancé en 2003 avec comme objectif de doter l’US Air Force et l’US Navy d’une plateforme commune. Ce programme fut abandonné en 2006 sous décision de l’US Air Force. L’US Navy a sélectionné Northrop Grumman pour la suite du programme, rebaptisé UCAS-D, qui a donné lieu au X-47B.

L’US Air Force pour sa part aurait donc décidé à cette époque de lancer le RQ-180. Et ce n’était sans doute pas une coincidence quand, en 2007, Northrop Grumman avait annoncé le rachat de Scaled Composites avec son savoir-faire inégalé en matière d’aérostructures en composites. L’avancement du programme RQ-180 expliquerait par ailleurs la décision de l’US Air Force, en 2012, d’abandonner la version Block 30 du Global Hawk, ostensiblement pour des raison de coûts.

5 décembre 2013 par 45eNord.ca (AFP)

La NSA, l’agence américaine chargée des interceptions de communications, intercepte les données de géolocalisation de centaines de millions de téléphones portables dans le monde, a révélé mercredi le Washington Post, s’appuyant sur des documents fournis par l’ancien consultant Edward Snowden.

Six mois après les premières révélations de Snowden notamment sur la collecte des métadonnées téléphoniques (durée des appels, numéros appelés etc.), cette nouvelle révélation semble montrer que l’agence américaine est également capable de suivre des personnes à la trace grâce à leur portable, même quand celui-ci n’est pas utilisé.

L’agence stocke des informations sur « au moins des centaines de millions d’appareils » et enregistre « près de 5 milliards » de données de localisation par jour, affirme le quotidien sur son site internet.

« Nous obtenons de vastes volumes » de données de géolocalisation partout dans le monde, a confirmé un haut responsable de cette collecte cité par le Post.

L’agence y parvient en se connectant aux câbles qui relient les différents réseaux mobiles dans le monde et collecte « incidemment » des données de géolocalisation de citoyens américains.

L’intérêt de cette collecte, permise par le dialogue constant entre un téléphone et l’antenne-relai la plus proche et de puissants algorithmes mathématiques, est de « retracer les mouvements et de mettre en lumière des relations cachées entre des personnes », explique le quotidien.

Le volume de données enregistrées et stockées par la NSA atteindrait 27 térabytes, soit deux fois le volume de l’ensemble du contenu de la bibliothèque du Congrès, la plus importante du monde.

Ce volume d’informations serait tel qu’il « surpasse notre capacité à digérer, traiter et stocker » les données, affirme le Washington Post, citant un document interne de la NSA datant de 2012.

« Les capacités de la NSA pour géolocaliser sont ahurissantes (…) et indiquent que l’agence est capable de rendre la plupart des efforts pour avoir des communications sécurisées futile », croit encore savoir le Washington Post.

PHOENIX, Dec. 4 (UPI)

Additional hard armor inserts for tactical vests worn by U.S. troops are being produced by BAE Systems under contracts worth nearly $18 million.

"The body armor is designed with the specific purpose of stopping armor-piercing bullets," said Ashoo Agarwal, a quality engineer at BAE Systems. "Our team of engineers works hard to ensure every plate we make meets a rigorous set of requirements and standards. This commitment to quality helps protect warfighters around the world."

Among the recently issued contracts is a $10.2 million order from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency for Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts; an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth as much as $6 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for SPEAR BALCS inserts and a $500,000 research and development contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for Enhanced Concealable Small Arms Protective Inserts.

The hard armor inserts -- worn inside the fronts, backs, and sides of outer tactical vests – have been fully qualified by the U.S. government in physical, environmental, and ballistic testing, BAE Systems said.

The number of inserts to be provided was not disclosed.

Dec 4, 2013 ASDNews Source : Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins will supply EP-8000 image generators for Boeing Apache Longbow Crew Trainers (LCT).

LeAnn Ridgeway, vice president and general manager of Simulation & Training Solutions for Rockwell Collins, said the contract is the latest example of providing reliability and innovation for the Apache LCT program.

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