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So a huge focus of the new R&D and science and technology S&T and program management aircraft is going to be how to build (S&T) efforts to develop rotorcraft “have got to pull closer together, and a zero-maintenance aircraft. But, in into the future. In addition to a spe- this collaboration has got to be tighter order to do that, there must be a lot of cial R&D Report: Target 2030 that’s to prevent us from using the small embedded technologies.” The collab- part of our Military Insider publica- amount of resources we’ve got.” Cros- orative nature of designing an aircraft tion (starting on page M1), the July by added that when only about $100 that can be used across all services is issue features Keith Brown’s exclusive million of a total $6-8 billion budget is another hurdle, Lewis continued. interview with U.S. Army Aviation dedicated to S&T, “that’s budget dust. “The organizations building these Maj. Gen. William “Tim” Crosby, pro- ... If we waste one of those dollars pur- aircraft have to be able to understand gram executive officer of U.S. Army suing something that doesn’t tie into cross-discipline approaches. That’s Aviation (see story on page 54). our vision for the future, then we’re the beauty of the S&T organization— Crosby told a crowd of engineers at wasting that, and we can ill-afford to it’s small enough and agile enough to the AHS Forum in May that expanded let that happen.” understand and work hand-in-glove collaboration between S&T and mili- He concluded that he “never met with our counterparts functionally to tary program management needs to an engineer that couldn’t design what be able to come up with air vehicles occur, describing a “marriage” of the we asked him to do. What makes your that have those kinds of capabilities groups, in order to develop and fund blood boil is when I come in halfway embedded in them. Remember too, a family of Future Vertical Lift (FVL) through and keep changing it. So all of these aircraft that we’re building aircraft. “We can ill-afford to be pur- again, that communication flow and for 2030 are going to be optionally suing things that don’t either support that marriage has to happen so that manned. So they will fundamentally Future Vertical Lift or where we need we have a clear vision. You all have fly themselves. It’s a different way of to go in modernizing the platforms the greatest concepts, the ideas— thinking about the fight.” that we have,” he noted. That’s “the what you need is prioritization of Working together across the spec- kind of communication and collabo- resources.” trum is one of the most important ration we’re going to need in budget- Bill Lewis, director for aviation elements to the success of the FVL tight environments. … We’ve got to development at the U.S. Army Avia- program. The U.S. Senate Armed Ser- collaborate, we’ve got to coordinate, tion and Missile Research, Develop- vices committee issued a June 4 report we’ve got to discuss.” ment, and Engineering Center (who in the National Defense Authorization Crosby pointed out the impor- hosted an S&T briefings panel at Act for FY2013 that notes despite the tance of working toward the future, AHS), told Rotor & Wing in an exclu- link between the Under Secretary of describing it as a “number one prior- sive interview (see story on page M12) Defense for Acquisition, Technology ity” for all interested parties. that the organization’s funding “has and Logistics (USD AT&L) and the “Sometimes it’s easy to focus on remained relatively level since the civil industry-led Vertical Lift Consor- the right now, the current budget year, mid-’80s. The problem with aviation tium (VLC), not enough headway is and thinking to yourself that you’re is that our commodities are expensive. being made (see story on page M9). supporting the soldier. That’s the easy The development of our commodi- To take Crosby’s analogy further, way out,” he said, adding that if leader- ties is expensive.” Given all that, he the S&T and program management ship doesn’t think about long-term, continued, “we very deliberately have communities not only need to get “we’ll feel real good about ourselves industry partners who cost-share with hitched, but they need to have chil- today, but in a few years we’ll look us [and] who try to help us along the dren, in order to “start a family” of back and say we screwed up and it’s path of coming up with the develop- FVL aircraft. Without that close-knit our fault. If we accept that short-term ments. In the case of some companies, cooperation, FVL could potentially answer today, then we have no one to they go out on their own and do turn into the RAH-66 Comanche pro- blame but ourselves down the road some developments. So, could we gram, Part 2—and that’s something when our kids are out there trying to use more? Absolutely.” Lewis pointed nobody can afford. 4 ROTOR & WING MAGAZINE | JULY 2012 WWW.ROTORANDWING.COM When you fly helicopters, looking for trouble becomes a full-time job. That’s why you fly with Garmin® GTS™ traffic alerting. It can provide that “extra set of eyes” you need to help see-and-avoid other aircraft in busy airspace. Garmin’s GTS™ 800/820/850 family of ADS-B enhanced TAS and TCAS I systems are the only ones offering CLEAR CAS™ – a patented Garmin technology that correlates both active and passive surveillance (including 1090 MHz ADS-B “In”) to give you the best, most accurate picture of all the moving targets1 in your vicinity.