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Unmanned
RDECOM investigates carbon nanotubes for rotor blade improvement - News
June 13, 2013
ADELPHI, MD. The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) research laboratory is conducting a study on the insertion of carbon nanotubes into helicopter rotor blades. Researchers are hopeful that the nanotubes will provide improved performance for design and fabrication of next-generation rotor blades and fixed wings.
Avionics
Army helicopter upgrades delayed, virtual training trending - News
February 22, 2013
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL. Army Deputy Chief of Staff G-8 Lt. Gen. James Barclay III, , told audiences at the Association of the U.S. Army's (AUSA) Winter Symposium today that fielding of all combat lift and attack helicopters will be delayed due to the completion of a new modernization strategy based sequestration. The Army’s AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 helicopter upgrade programs will be extended by as much as five years, as the Army prepares for a possible loss of $18 billion in maintenance and operations funding if the March 1 sequester takes effect.
Avionics
First Bell OH-58F Kiowa Warrior test aircraft completed, U.S. Army saves on in-house build - News
October 25, 2012
WASHINGTON – Completion of the U.S. Army’s first Bell OH-58F Kiowa Warrior helicopter at a prototype facility was announced at AUSA. The new variant of the Kiowa Warrior was designed and built by the Army’s Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), and instrumentation is now beginning for its first expected flight test in April.
Comms
Tactical smartgrid proof of concept demonstrated by CERDEC - News
October 05, 2012
The U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering (CERDEC) Command has displayed a proof of concept for a smart grid supporting tactical operations. The data-gathering event was intended to develop solutions for the Department of Defense’s interests in reducing generators, preventing grid collapse and overloads, and a 25 percent minimization of manhours associated with fuel consumption and grid operation. To conform to these interests, a microgrid system was implemented as it is the only available solution that allows for energy storage, renewables, and other technologies that can simultaneously supplement traditional power.
Unmanned
Comms
MC4 telemedicine brings e-Health to the battlefield:Interview with Army Lieutenant Colonel William Geesey, product manager, MC4 - Story
April 11, 2011
Editor's Note: Battlefield medicine has come a long, long way since the Civil War, and advanced many clicks beyond what was commonplace only 10 years ago in OIF. The U.S. Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care is integrating and deploying the best COTS technology available to further soldiers. I spoke with Lieutenant Colonel William Geesey, product manager and visionary?for MC4. Edited excerpts follow.?
Radar/EW
Army case study: Using DOE to reduce time required to optimize complex design - Story
June 24, 2008
Dan Cler at U.S Army BenEt Laboratories is using Design of Experiments (DOEs) to drive a series of computer simulations in designing a new generation of muzzle brakes. DOE saves time by reducing the number of simulations required and makes it possible to optimize the design with a higher level of certainty.
