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U.S. Army PEO Aviation Showcases Future Long Range Assault Aircraft to 25th Combat Aviation Brigade


U.S. Army PEO Aviation Showcases Future Long Range Assault Aircraft to 25th Combat Aviation Brigade WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii – The U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) is set to deliver a transformational capability for ground forces and aircrews alike. With enhanced speed and improved range, FLRAA accomplishes the mission twice as far and twice as fast, creating multiple dilemmas for the enemy, expanding the depth of the battlefield and extending the reach of air assault missions. Its design allows for rapid exploitation of freedom of maneuver, enabling decentralized operations across vast distances. With unmatched reach and standoff...

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EDGE of Innovation: EDGE 24 concludes at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground


The Army Futures Command’s (AFC) Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Cross-Functional Team (CFT)’s 2024 iteration of the Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE) concluded earlier this week after three weeks of experimentation. EDGE 24 was deliberately smaller in scale than previous iterations of the event and focused on autonomous collaborative behaviors of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), launched effects (LE), and unmanned ground vehicles. “Our specific experimental objective was learning how launched effect surrogates behave on a network and off a network,” said Brig. Gen. Cain Baker, FVL CFT Director. “Based off a simulated enemy threat array, we allowed the launched effect surrogates...

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California Army National Guard Supports Wildland Fire Response in San Bernardino Mountains, California


California Army National Guard Soldiers from Company B, 1-126th Aviation Regiment deploy CH-47 Chinook helicopters to assist in the Line Fire response in the San Bernardino Mountains, California, on Sept. 15, 2024. With over 6,000 personnel on the ground, the Chinooks conduct water drops and troop transport, playing a vital role in protecting threatened communities as the fire continues to burn over 39,100 acres. (U.S. Army National Guard Video by Sgt. Joaquin D. Vasquez-Duran)

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Tennessee Guardsmen Respond to East Tennessee Wildfires


A Tennessee National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crew chief, from Knoxville’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion, monitors the wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, August 27.

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The Arizona National Guard Aids in Tourist Evacuation


U.S. Army Soldiers of the Arizona National Guard (AZNG) guide tourists into a UH-60 Blackhawk, August 24, 2024 at the Havasupai Indian Reservation. The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs provided UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter support to evacuate 104 tourist and tribal members out of the canyon after flood waters impacted the Havasupai community and tourists visiting the Havasupai Falls. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Erin Hannigan)

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November 2024

Army Depot Update


Deadline: 10/13/2024
  • Corpus Christi Army Depot Update
  • Unmanned Aircraft Systems
  • Fixed Wing Update
  • Air Traffic Services
  • Project Convergence

December 2024

Industry Partners Directory


Deadline: 11/14/2024
  • Industry Partners Directory
  • Acquisition Process
  • Research & Development/Science & Technology

January 2025

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sensors & Weapons


Deadline: 12/13/2024
  • Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sensors & Weapons

February 2025

Aviation Maintenance


Deadline: 01/12/2025
  • Aviation Maintenance
  • AMCOM
  • Aviation Center Logistics Command Update 128th Avn. Bde.

March 2025

Aviation Maintenance


Deadline: 02/14/2025
  •  Guard/Reserve Aviation 
  • MEDEVAC Concepts & Capabilities
  • Safety

April 2025

Pre-Summit Issue


Deadline: 03/14/2025
  •  Special Operations Aviation
  • Arming the Force

May/June 2025

Summit Issue


Deadline: 04/07/2025
  • (Bonus Dist. – Annual Summit) 
  • Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit
  • Army Aviation Leadership State of the Enterprise
  • AAAA Chapter Directory
  • 2024 Photo Contest Winners
  • Project Convergence 25

July 2025

Simulation & Training 


Deadline: 06/13/2025
  • Simulation & Training 
  •  Aviation Survivability 
  • Annual Summit Pictorial Recap

August/September 2025

Blue Book Directory


Deadline: 08/15/2025
  • Blue Book Directory 
  • AAAA Scholarship Foundation Winners 

October/November 2025

Aviation Sustainment 


Deadline: 10/10/2025
  • (Bonus Dist. – Cribbins Conference/Luther Jones Depot Forum) 
  • Aviation Sustainment 
  • Aviation Support
  • Aviation Soldier Support
  • Rotary Wing Project Managers
  • Fixed Wing
  • Army Capability Managers
  • Air Traffic Services
  • Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE)

December 2025

Industry Partners Directory 


Deadline: 11/14/2025
  • Industry Partners Directory 
  • Industry Support and Challenges 
  • Research & Development / Science & Technology

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Army Aviation

Looking Back


Looking Back: A monthly look into the history of Army Aviation based not only on the evolution of Army Aviation itself, but events in military history that certainly influenced the evolution of the Aviation Branch of the United States Army.

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Remembering the Air Observation Post Fliers


Looking Back, October 2024 By Mark Albertson Remembering the Air Observation Post Fliers October 1978, Air Observation Post fliers held a reunion at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. During World War II, it was the Air OPs who planted that seed for what would later become Army Aviation. Commander was Colonel (later brigadier general) William Wallace Ford. An artilleryman who became a flier, Ford was the first Director of Air Training and formed the Army’s first Air Observation Post for the Field Artillery. He will be inducted into the Army Aviation Hall of Fame in 1975, as being representative of the Pre-1942...

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50 Years Ago: 11th Air Assault Division (Test)


Looking Back, August 2024 By Mark Albertson 71st Anniversary of Army Aviation 50 Years Ago: 11th Air Assault Division (Test) This month’s Looking Back is from the February 28, 2013 issue of Army Aviation.[1] It is rewritten as an extended version. * * * * * If we are successful, the Air Mobile Concept will be a dynamic advance for the Army.If we are not, we will go back to flying Piper Cubs.If we have that much left, and the Army and the country as a whole will lose one of the things that . . . can mean the...

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