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July
2003
 House / Senate Conferees Approve
Landmark Rotorcraft Initiative
Lockheed Martin
Plans UCAR Compound Helicopter
Helicopter Sensor Looks For Buried Waste
Lockheed Martin Gets EH101 Testbed
Fire Scout UAV Makes Autonomous Recovery
Northrop Grumman Receives UCAR
Award
Northrop
Grumman has received a $7.8 million award from DARPA to begin the
preliminary design phase (Phase II) of the unmanned combat armed
rotorcraft (UCAR) program. UCAR is an eight-year, four-phase advanced
technology program sponsored jointly by the US Army and DARPA. Phase I of
the UCAR program focused on concept development and system trade-off
studies. Phase II will be followed by a system development activity in
Phase III and system maturation in Phase IV. Following a favorable
Milestone B decision at the end of 2009, the program will transfer to Army
control and undergo formal system development and demonstration leading to
an initial operating capability by 2015.
MH-60R
Starts First Operational Assessment
Flyable
Comanche EOSS Delivered
CH-46E
ERIP Engines In Full Production
Pave
Hawk Accident Report
Special
Operations Upgrades
Personnel Happenings
- Louis P. Bartolotta, Jr. has been named the Managing Director of
Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company in Fort Worth, Texas. He was formerly the
Director of Marketing for AgustaWestland in Cascina Costa, Italy.
- Marc W. Sheffler, AHS International Membership Chairman in our Society
world, has been named the Director - Engineering Mesa. He will be
responsible for oversight of Mesa Engineering and he will also provide
technical support to the Apache Program, maintain overhead budgets and
spending, develop and implement a plan for required training for
engineers in Mesa, and ensure that Lean tools and processes, consistent
with the Site Strategic Plan, are implemented in Mesa.
- Other personnel changes in Mesa include that Robert
Deadrick has been selected
as the director of the Apache Mission Systems/Armament IPT in Mesa. He
was formerly the lead for Tactical Aircraft Mission Systems Processing
and Display in St. Louis.
- Focusing on Boeing Rotorcraft's Philadelphia operation, J.
(Jack) Dougherty has been appointed program manager, CH-47
Chinook reporting to Pat Shanahan, Vice President/General Manager,
Boeing Rotorcraft Systems.
NASA Employees Honored
- Congratulations to NASA employees who received some well-deserved
recognition. Bill Hindson received the agency's
Outstanding Leadership Medal for
leading a diverse group of engineers and pilots toward the first
operation of a new research flight control system on a modified UH-60
helicopter.
- The Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory
(RASCAL) Team received the agency's Group
Achievement Award for
successfully developing and qualifying America's only variable-stability
helicopter.
- Another Group Achievement Award was given
to The UH-60 Individual Blade Control Team for having
conceived, developed and demonstrated the first use of an individual
blade control system for dramatic noise and vibration reduction on a
U.S.-production helicopter rotor system.
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