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FLIGHT PATH


AUSA Army Aviation Symposium highlights successes and challenges ahead


by Brittany Ashcroft and Robert E. Coultas A for


rmy Aviation is increasing


facing demand aviation assets will only ever- for the


wealth of capabilities it brings to the fight, and the need increase,


particularly as the Army deals with con- straints on resources.


This was the outlook to emerge from the Association of


the United States


Army’s Institute of Land Warfare Army Aviation


for aviation Symposium and Exposition,


Jan. 11-13 at National Harbor, MD. The symposium examined the ever- growing demand


modernization, fiscal constraints,


tainment and reset, industry’s roles, and evolving technologies.


“There’s recognition across the Army of the importance of what aviation means for this fight and what it means for the next fight, too,” said LTG William N. Phillips, Military Deputy and Director, Acquisition Career Management in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASAALT).


“Since we started the conflict, we have flown over 4.5 million hours of support for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. And we deployed at a higher rate than anyone else in the Army. The appetite is


assets, sus-


huge and growing,” said MG Anthony G. Crutchfield, Commanding General, Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker (AL).


A prime reason for this robust demand for Army Aviation, according to MG William T. Crosby, Program Executive Officer Aviation, is


that “it brings so “our


much flexibility to the warfighter on the ground.” As defense spending decreases, value … becomes astronomically


more important, because as you spread things further on the ground, the respon- siveness


that Army Aviation becomes more important.”


THE CHALLENGES Crutchfield highlighted four major chal- lenges that Army Aviation is facing today.


“One, we are going from an Army at war to an Army that prepares to go to war. Two, we know we, Army aviators, have to define what we need and not what we want. Three, the resources are declining. Four, I truly believe that the last 10 years of war are not the blueprint for the next war,” he said.


Identifying what is necessary vs. what is desired for Army Aviation affects Army Aviation’s processes and the development of solutions, Crutchfield said. “We know that the Army is changing,” he said. “It’s


brings


Lennox noted that the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter is nearing about 35 years old, while the rest of the fleet has reached the 15- to 20-year mark, on aver- age. “They’ve been used at


incredible


rates over the last 10 years,” Lennox said. We’ve been able to do some remarkable things, but we haven’t fixed the age of the fleet.”


In order to move forward and address those challenges, Army Aviation must


“continue to develop agile and adaptable leaders who can thrive in a complex and uncertain environment,” Crutchfield said. “We have to continue to develop and modernize and deliver what our force needs in equipping. We have to determine what the future’s going to be,


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changing as we speak, and Army Avia- tion has to change with it, because Army Aviation doesn’t exist for its own worth. It exists to support the United States Army and the goals of our Nation.”


Noting the dual challenge of a high operations tempo and an aging fleet, LTG Robert P. Lennox, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, said, “We have to figure out how to modernize a fleet that continues to be used at historic rates, and all indica- tions are that this is going to continue for the future,” he said.


CONFERENCE CALL


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