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~ Boeing Integrated Defense System

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Boeing CH-47F Chinook Helicopter Fielded by US Army's 4th Infantry Division
ξ the CH-47F Chinook helicopter has been fielded by Bravo Company, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, based at Fort Hood, Texas.
ξ the second U.S. Army unit to field the CH-47F since the aircraft was certified combat-ready in July 2007
ξ "This aircraft is light-years ahead in flight-management systems compared with our older aircraft,"
ξ /Col. Patrick Tierney, commander, Combat Aviation Brigade/
ξ "The F-model Chinook has the same systems as the latest civilian aircraft."
ξ Lt. Col. Dave Fleckenstein, commander, 2nd Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, Huntington, W.V.
ξ -- who pilots one of the new Chinooks --
ξ noted that the aircraft's radar altitude hold "keeps the aircraft a set number of feet off the ground and
ξ negates making multiple passes to land
ξ the all-digital cockpit gives us five displays,
ξ with each capable of showing several different pages of flight plans,
ξ alternate routes and data from different sources processed by the central processing unit
ξ since the Chinook's combat-ready certification by the U.S. Army,
ξ units have completed in excess of 1,000 flight hours,
ξ performing a wide range of training exercises under night-vision goggles simulating air assault, combat re-supply and transport operations
ξ The CH-47F has successfully completed all evaluations, including airworthiness, functional testing and operational testing.
ξ "There is a great deal of enthusiasm for the CH-47F from pilots and crews in the field,"
ξ /Jack Dougherty, vice president, Boeing H-47 Programs/
ξ "This advanced aircraft provides greater capability to meet our military forces' growing range of mission demands."

ξ Built at Boeing's Rotorcraft Systems facility in Ridley Township, Pa.,
ξ the CH-47F helicopter features a newly designed, modernized airframe,
ξ a Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) cockpit and
ξ a BAE Digital Advanced Flight Control System (DAFCS).

ξ CAAS greatly improves aircrew situational awareness, and
ξ DAFCS provides dramatically improved flight control capabilities through features such as
ξ "hover hold,"
ξ "altitude hold" and
ξ "beep down" that improve performance and safety in brownout situations, as well as the entire flight envelope.

ξ Advanced avionics also incorporate improved situational awareness for flight crews
ξ with an advanced digital map display and
ξ a data transfer system that allows storing of preflight and mission data

ξ Improved survivability features include Common Missile Warning and Improved Countermeasure Dispenser Systems.
ξ The entire suite of improved cockpit capabilities will apply to other H-47 models.

ξ Powered by two 4,733-horsepower Honeywell engines,
ξ the new CH-47F can reach speeds greater than 175 mph and transport more than 21,000 pounds.
ξ The CH-47F, with the Robertson Aviation Extended Range Fuel System, has a mission radius of more than 400 nautical miles.

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~ Network-Centric Rotorcraft Demonstrations

»Network-Centric Rotorcraft Demonstrations
ST. LOUIS, May 05, 2008
ξ Boeing,
ξ the U.S. Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate,
ξ AMRDEC Aviation Systems Integration Facility,
ξ Harris Corp.
ξ Rockwell Collins

ξ received the American Helicopter Society's (AHS) 2008 Howard Hughes Award during the AHS International Annual Forum in Montreal on April 30

The Network Centric Operations (NCO) Technology Development Team
ξ won the award for successfully demonstrating how the integration of network-enabling capabilities on rotorcraft platforms
ξ leads to improved battlefield situational awareness and mission effectiveness

A prototype of Boeing's Block III AH-64D Apache Longbow
ξ will provide network-centric warfare capabilities for the U.S. Army's current and future force
ξ In laboratory tests (!)
ξ the team demonstrated interoperability between the Apache Block III and
ξ the Common Avionics Architecture System
ξ an open systems architecture based on commercial standards

The Apache Block III
ξ became the first network-enabled combat helicopter
ξ to conduct operations in a field environment at the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Experiment 1.1 at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

Experiments throughout 2007 demonstrated rotorcraft interoperability with key NCO technologies, including:

Network radios
ξ capable of hosting Internet Protocol waveforms

Middleware software
ξ to provide network connection,
ξ discovery,
ξ authentication and
ξ data-distribution services

Advanced software applications for
ξ situational awareness,
ξ mission planning and
ξ collaboration services

Gateway applications
ξ to integrate new network information with
ξ the platform's legacy Operational Flight Program applications

Presentation systems
ξ for effective interface to the aircrew,
ξ such as the FCS Warfighter Machine Interface System

"As U.S. and joint ground forces increasingly operate in a network-centric environment,
ξ the tests that this team successfully conducted prove that
ξ net-enabled rotorcraft platforms
ξ such as the Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopter
ξ can provide information superiority on the battlefield
ξ while maintaining their primary roles," said Al Winn, Boeing Apache Programs vice president.

Other Boeing platforms and programs that participated in the tests included
ξ FCS,
ξ the V-22 Osprey,
ξ the CH-47 Chinook,
ξ the F/A-18 Hornet and
ξ Joint Effects Based Command and Control (JEBC2).

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