CCDC’S ROAD MAP TO MODERNIZING THE ARMY: FUTURE VERTICAL LIFT
Te Aviation & Missile Center is devel- oping a FARA prototype, which will be a smaller variant than the Future Long- Range Assault Aircraft that is also in development. Tese future aircraft will have multiple types of unmanned aerial systems with lethal and nonlethal effects that can operate in communications- and GPS-denied environments.
WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO Based on multidomain operational concepts, emerging requirements
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Future Vertical Lift include the ability to fly farther and faster, to carry heavier payloads, be easier and less expensive to sustain, to team with unmanned systems and perform certain optionally piloted missions.
Aviators need to be able to operate day or night in all types of weather, includ- ing degraded environments such as sand, smoke, smog, clouds, fog, rain, snow, and brownout or whiteout conditions. Degraded visual environment (DVE) tech- nology will enhance operations, making it possible to see the enemy without being seen, which will greatly increase lethality and survivability. Part of readiness is being able to operate in different environments, so DVE will make a critical impact when it’s fielded by increasing combat power as well as preventing mishaps.
To support aviation survivability, we are exploring innovative technologies that will warn aircrews of incoming small- arms or machine-gun fire early enough for them to take evasive action and launch a counterattack. Tese technol- ogies will outpace evolving threats with coordinated effects that will detect, avoid or defeat threats by reducing platform susceptibility and vulnerability.
A number of our efforts that will enable Future Vertical Lift to perform both
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UP AND OVER
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters assigned to Task Force Shadow fly over mountainous terrain in eastern Afghanistan en route to Kabul in June 2018. Helicopters have been essential to operations in Afghanistan because of the mountainous desert landscape. (Photo by Capt. Kristoffer Sibbaluca, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade)
manned and unmanned operations link directly to the Army’s priorities, including robotics, autonomy and artificial intelli- gence (AI).
For example, we are leveraging multi- ple areas of expertise across the command, including engineers who can produce technology that allows plat- forms to perform complex navigation
and a communications system that will operate in anti-access and area denial environments. To support this effort, we started the Advanced Teaming for Tactical Aviation Operations program in FY19. Both industry and DOD have invested in this effort, so our challenge is to rapidly select the best components from industry that will work on military aircraft.
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