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Army Seeks Input For New ARH Program
By Ann Roosevelt The Army Nov. 7 issued a Sources Sought notice for industry input to meet the requirements for a new Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH program after terminating the contract with Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT]. The service is reassessing the ARH performance requirements, the notice...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2008-11-12
ARH Cancellation Triggers About 4 Percent Layoff At Bell Helicopter
By Ann Roosevelt Officials at Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] Oct. 29 said the company would lay off approximately 500 workers, representing about four percent of the workforce, following the Defense Department's decision earlier in the month to terminate the potential $6.2 billion Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2008-10-31
OSD, Army Consider ARH Alternatives
By Ann Roosevelt The fate of the Army's Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH, produced by Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT], is in the hands of the Office of the Secretary of Defense OSD and both the service and OSD analysts are examining alternatives. Brig. Gen. Walter Davis, director...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2008-10-08
Battelle, AMCOM, Changing Sustainment For Fielded Aviation, Missiles
By Ann Roosevelt Battelle and the Army Aviation and Missile Command AMCOM are working together on the Continuous Technology Refreshment CTR program to address the decades old problem of obsolescence and technology insertion for fielded weapon systems, according to an official. "We currently have about...
Tags: Army, Noland Co.
Research articles 2008-09-24
Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Stevens Still Standing. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)--the former Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee ranking member who was indicted in July on seven felony counts tied to allegedly concealing gifts--handily won the GOP Senate primary last Tuesday,...
Tags: AAI Corp., Aerospace Industries Association, Army, Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp.
Research articles 2008-09-02
Dr. Craig L. Urbauer Joins Tenon Consulting
Former Army National Guard Chief Surgeon to Lead Growing Healthcare Emergency Management Initiatives ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Tenon Consulting Solutions, Inc. today announced that Dr. Craig L. Urbauer has joined Tenon Consulting as a director. In this role, Dr. Urbauer will lead Tenon's growing efforts in forming and implementing healthcare-oriented...
Tags: Army, Tenon Ltd.
Research articles 2008-05-08
Navy Awards Austal, Bath Iron Works And Bollinger Shipyards JHSV Design Contracts
By Geoff Fein The Navy last night awarded three, $3 million, phase one firm fixed price contracts to develop a preliminary design for the Joint High Speed Vessel JHSV. The winning bids were Mobile, Ala.-based Austal USA, General Dynamics' [GD] Bath Iron Works, Brunswick, Maine;...
Tags: Army, Bath Iron Works Corp., General Dynamics Corp., Navy
Research articles 2008-02-01
Critical Test For Bell ARH Next Month
By Ann Roosevelt The Limited User Test LUT for the Army's Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH early next month is key to getting the program back on track, officials said. "This is a critical point, the LUT in November," Col. Tim Crosby, deputy...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2007-10-16
Casey Asks Army To Drill Plan For Six-Month Unit Reset
By Jen DiMascio The Army's chief of staff has asked the service to look at the possibility of resetting units within six months of their return from deployment. Currently the process takes "too long," according to Lt. Gen. James Thurman, the Army's deputy chief of...
Tags: Army, Casey, Formica Corp.
Research articles 2007-10-10
Marine Corps Begins Training On Shadow UAS
AAI Corp. [UIC] has begun training Marine Corps personnel to fly and maintain the Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems TUAS in preparation for the service's transition later in 2007 to the surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering system, the company reported. The Marine Corps is retiring its Pioneer...
Tags: AAI Corp., Army, Marine Corps, Navy, SHADOW
Research articles 2007-07-25
Army ASARC To Determine ARH Way Ahead In Mid-May
By Ann Roosevelt The Army will decide next month how to move forward on its fledgling Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH following a high-level meeting between Army brass and industry officials and new plans to fix the program from prime contractor Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT]. On...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2007-04-26
FLIR Multi-Sensor System For ARH Ready For Limited User Test
By Ann Roosevelt FLIR Systems' [FLIR] BRITE Star II stabilized multi-sensor system for the Army's Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH Target Acquisition Sensor Suite is ready for the Limited User Test, a company official said. The multi-patented BRITE Star II system incorporates high-resolution infrared imaging sensor,...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2007-04-11
Army Wants To Make ARH Program Work
By Ann Roosevelt The Army requirement for a new Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH stands and the service wants to work with contractor Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] to make it work. "We don't want anyone to think that we've turned our back on Bell," Brig. Gen....
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2007-03-26
Army Notifies Bell Helicopter Textron It May Cancel ARH Program
By Jen DiMascio The Army has put Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] on notice that it may cancel the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ARH program in 30 days, according to a service official. The contractor has that much time to tell the Army why it should continue ...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Research articles 2007-03-22
Intelligent Automation Corp. Unveils SuperHUMS
By Ann Roosevelt Intelligent Automation Corp. IAC unveiled the SuperHUMS family of products last week featuring a next-generation system on a chip improvement that delivers more than 10 times the performance of previous vibration management systems. IAC's SuperHUMS is a revolutionary advancement in diagnostic technology...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Boeing Co.
Research articles 2007-03-06
Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Homeland Housekeeping. The Senate Homeland Security Committee has added two subcommittees, Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I/D-Conn.) says. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) will lead the subcommittee on disaster recovery; Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) will chair the...
Tags: Air Force, Army, Boeing Co., Brown, Essex Corp.
Research articles 2007-01-29
Army Aviation Transformation On Or Ahead of Schedule, Officials Say
By Ann Roosevelt Army aviation transformation is paying off in saving lives, new aircraft, aviation upgrades and safety equipment a three-year benchmark, officials say. "We're ahead of schedule in many ways," Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody said responding to a question from Defense...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Boeing Co.
Research articles 2006-11-16
Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Open the Gates. The Senate plans to soon take up the nomination of former CIA Director Robert Gates as a replacement for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose resignation was announced by President Bush last week. The...
Tags: Air Force, Army, Elbit Systems Ltd., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-11-13
GAO Denies MD Helicopter, AgustaWestland, LUH Protests
The Government Accountability Office Monday denied protests by MD Helicopters and Agusta Westland North America over the Army's awarding of the potential $2 billion Light Utility Helicopter LUH contract awarded to EADS North America. Therefore, the Utility Helicopter project office will execute the contract signed with EADS,...
Tags: Army, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., General Accounting Office, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.
Research articles 2006-10-26
Army Mulls Vehicle Options To Mitigate Payload Sacrifice In Armored Humvees
By Calvin Biesecker The Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command TACOM is reviewing its options for its light utility vehicles in light of the fact that its current utility workhorse in Iraq and Afghanistan, the armored versions of the Humvee, frequently struggle with payloads designed to be...
Tags: Armor Holdings Inc., Army
Research articles 2006-10-11