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What is a Digital Twin?
AMCOM Command Sergeant Major / By CSM Mike Dove: In the fall of 2019, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) in conjunction with the Program Executive Office Aviation, the Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team and the Systems Readiness Directorate of the Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center teamed together to commission a study on the operational availability and materiel availability for future vertical lift systems with Wichita State University (WSU). National Institute for Aviation Research personnel use high fidelity scanners during the reverse engineering of the UH-60L./ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AVIATION RESEARCH, WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY A...
Learn MoreSurvivability: A Combined Arms Discussion
Branch Chief’s Corner / By MG David J. Francis: Current and emerging threat capabilities provide our adversaries stand off from U.S. and coalition forces, which sets the basis for U.S. Army and Joint Force discussions on Multi-Domain Operations. 12th Combat Aviation Brigade staff members brief battle plans during a combined arms rehearsal for Saber Junction 20, Aug. 5, at Hohenfels, Germany./ U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY MAJ ROBERT FELLINGHAM Our consensus on how we will fight across all domains, drives the U.S. Army modernization strategy to give us the ability to penetrate, dis-integrate the Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) and Integrated...
Learn MoreSustainment and Ensuring Army Survivability
President’s Cockpit / By MG Jeff Schloesser, U.S. Army Retired: As a young combat engineer and later as an Army Aviator, I dwelled in a world focused on tactics, maneuver, and taking the fight to the enemy. Maintenance and sustainment were important to me, but it was often somebody else’s problem. Dr. F. Harold “Hal” Kushner VP Member & Family Wellness / AAPI FILE PHOTO What a rude awakening I got as a new battalion commander. Sustainment was MY responsibility, and I had lots to learn! Later as a brigade and division commander at war, I found myself often consumed...
Learn MoreAH-64D Mobile Training Team (MTT) – Army Aviation Enterprise Success!
Reserve Component / By BG J. Ray Davis: In early 2019 the Army National Guard (ARNG) and the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE) agreed on the need for a stop gap measure, which would increase Army AH-64D aircraft qualification throughput. 2LT Hart and WO1 Searcy, 1-211 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, Utah Army National Guard wait for their first live-fire gunnery at Lakeside Range, Utah. 2LT Hart is a graduate of the ARNG AH-64D MTT. / U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PHOTO BY CW2 FRED BITTNER, UTAH ARNG The result was the ARNG stepping forward and establishing an MTT. The...
Learn MoreArmy Aviators Demonstrate Inherent Flexibility During COVID
Director of Army Aviation / By BG Michael C. (Mac) McCurry:The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge around the world, and for all Americans. The military and its Servicemembers have borne a proportionate share of that burden while demonstrating a firm resolve to prevail. As the coronavirus spread across the country, one of the Army’s primary tasks became protecting the force so we could protect the Nation. Staying home when possible and practicing social distancing became our best line of defense against further spreading the disease, and our surest way to keep ourselves and loved ones healthy. For many Servicemembers,...
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