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National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army's Vow to Use Proven Technologies Falls Short With one test flight crash, two major delays, cost overruns and Congress threatening to zero out its budget, the armed reconnaissance helicopter has been tagged with the "troubled program" label.
National Defense April 2008 Breanne Wagner	Army Pushes Forward With Troubled Scout Helicopter Despite a string of delays and billions of dollars in cost increases, the Army has regained confidence in its ARH-70A armed reconnaissance helicopter.
National Defense March 2007 Stew Magnuson	Delivery of Armed Recon Helicopter Delayed One Year A crucial test to determine whether the Army's new armed reconnaissance helicopter is ready for production has slipped at least six weeks due to problems integrating a new sensor package.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Ghost of Comanche Haunts Army Helicopter Leaders as They Push for New Models Army Aviation officers want a family of new helicopters. Not now, but 20 years from now. Two decades may sound like a long time - but its is not when developing Army rotary wing aircraft.
National Defense April 2012 Dan Parson	Industry Ready and Waiting for Armed Scout Helicopter Demonstration Industry is poised to offer the Army a laundry list of possible replacements for its armed scout helicopters, but when and if they will have the opportunity to display their wares remains unclear.
National Defense April 2010 Wright & Erwin	New Attitudes about UAVs Shape Army's Scout Helicopter Program The Army has tried unsuccessfully for decades to build a new scout helicopter to replace the aging Kiowa Warrior. After canceling two multibillion-dollar helicopter programs, the Army has decided that a conventional rotorcraft is no longer the answer.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Scout Helicopter Competitors to Army: It's Time for a Flyoff Helicopter manufacturers have flexed their muscles and weighed in for a chance to replace the Army's aging scout helicopter fleet.
National Defense April 2013 Dan Parsons	Given Budget Uncertainty, Armed Aerial Scout Hovering in Limbo The man chiefly responsible for buying helicopters for the Army, Maj. Gen. Tim Crosby, is of the opposite opinion. He recently called the Armed Aerial Scout the service's "number-one need, today."
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale	Army helicopter upgrades on pace after cancellation of new rotorcraft program Upgrades planned for the UH-60M Black Hawk and Kiowa Warrior -- the armed version of the OH-58D helicopter.
National Defense April 2009 Matthew Rusling	With No Replacement in Sight, Army's Oldest Helos Keep Going The Army's oldest and busiest scout helicopters were supposed to be retired by now. Instead, maintenance crews scramble to keep them operating around the clock -- in two theaters of war.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts.
National Defense January 2014 Valerie Insinna	Decline of U.S. Helicopter Procurement on the Horizon After a decade-long period of surging sales and rapid expansion, the military helicopter buying boom is coming to an end.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Aircraft Fleet Modernization Gains Momentum During the next six years, the Army will procure 1,000 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. In addition, the service plans to restore 1,655 Black Hawks, Chinooks, and Apaches as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense March 2014 Valerie Insinna	Battle Brewing Over Future Of Army Aviation Programs Army officials are considering the complete divestment of the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior and TH-67 training helicopter, announced Maj. Gen. Kevin Mangum, commanding general of the Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker.
National Defense March 2006 Stew Magnuson	Urban Conflicts Shape New Recon Helicopter Col. Mark Hayes and Lt. Col. Neil Thurgood are brimming with confidence while facing a Herculean task. Their mission is to develop and deploy a new, armed reconnaissance helicopter within four years.
National Defense December 2011 Dan Parsons	Army's Restored Combat Choppers Fly Like New Without a viable replacement for the aging OH-58 Kiowa Warriors, the Army has found that gutting and rebuilding older airframes might do the trick and could cost significantly less than buying a new aircraft and building new support systems.
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna	Industry Yearns for Scout Helicopter Competition The Army has all but canceled its armed aerial scout helicopter competition to replace the Kiowa Warrior, but some rotorcraft manufacturers are holding out hope that the service will decide to purchase a new aircraft.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Retiring Kiowas Will Find Home in Law Enforcement The Army's OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter will see an active retirement when it is replaced by a future armed reconnaissance helicopter. After the war, they could end up in the hands of homeland security agencies.
National Defense June 2014 Valerie Insinna	Congress to Delay Controversial Army Aviation Restructure Plan The debate over the Army's aviation restructure initiative is only the opening bell for what will likely be a long, painful struggle to define the roles of the service's active and National Guard components, experts said.
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons	Special Operations Boost Demand for Helicopters Special operations forces have a dedicated fleet of tricked-out helicopters at their disposal, but as their workload grows, they are increasingly reliant on conventional aircraft to get their jobs done.
National Defense October 2005 Frank Colucci	Helicopter Fleet Features Mix of New, Refurbished Aircraft As a result of the heavy use of helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army will need more than 3,000 new or remanufactured attack, utility, cargo and special operations helicopters by 2020. Meanwhile, orders for UH-60 from 10 other countries are expected in 2005.
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna	Future Vertical Lift Takes Step Forward Army officials have been talking for almost a decade about new vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to replace its aging fleets of helicopters.
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons	Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service.
National Defense October 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Future Vertical Lift Could Be Shot in the Arm for Industry The Army's forthcoming future vertical lift program -- which would replace thousands of aging helicopters -- will rejuvenate the United States' stagnant military helicopter market, experts and executives said.
National Defense April 2012 Dan Parsons	Future Helicopter Technology Remains Up in the Air While jet fighters are in their fifth generation, the Army is still sputtering around in helicopter airframes that have changed little -- if at all -- in several decades.
National Defense October 2013 Bob Smith	In with the Old, Out with the New: The Army's Modernization Challenge For U.S. Army aviation, uncertainty in federal budgets seems to have elevated the expression of "doing more with less" to a more permanent and enduring status.
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean	National Guard Helicopters Upgraded For Homeland Security Missions The Army is equipping the UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopter with a new mission package to enable pilots and operators to talk and share data with civil authorities and state agencies
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Grappling With Antiquated Buying Rules Army leaders continue to squabble over how best to satisfy soldiers' immediate equipment needs and simultaneously develop futuristic weapons systems for the decades ahead.
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Taking Off Upgrades and a surge of new U.S. military orders should make the next 10 years a busy decade for rotorcraft manufacturers, according to a recent study by Forecast International Inc.
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Shifting Aviation Focus From Unmanned to Manned The role of Army helicopters in Iraq as combat workhorses has bolstered the notion that rotary-wing aircraft, for most missions, are unlikely to be replaced by unmanned vehicles.
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons	More Drones Become Helicopter Sidekicks Troops can't seem to get enough of the aerial reconnaissance gathered by manned and unmanned aircraft, which has proven invaluable to them in recent conflicts.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Rushes to Deploy Defensive Gear on Aircraft The Army is rushing to field anti-missile systems for rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft, seeking to make up for cutbacks that practically zeroed out funding for aircraft survivability equipment during the past five years.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Insurgency Tactics Test Helicopters' Staying Power Technology so far has proven to be of little use in protecting Army helicopters from the ravages of small arms and rocket propelled grenades, military and civilian experts contend.
National Defense September 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Special Operations Command Wants Speedier Helicopters One of the biggest drawbacks of helicopters is that they are slow, which makes them vulnerable to enemy fire.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	Manufacturers: Technology Will Make Rotorcraft Faster, Safer The Pentagon's investment in rotorcraft science and technology has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but companies have been tinkering around in their own shops trying to fill innovation gaps.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	European Helicopters Look to Take Off in U.S. Military Market At a helicopter exposition in Orlando last month, CEOs of European manufacturers made it clear: They are both partners and competitors of their U.S. counterparts.
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons	Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission.
National Defense March 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army's Old Huey Choppers Getting a New Lease on Life The U.S. Army had planned to get rid of all its UH-1 Huey helicopters, which began flying in the late 1950s--almost half a century ago--by September of this year. Now, however, the service is awaiting the results of a major review of the service's entire aviation program, ordered in November by its chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, and all bets are off.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Services Competing For Future Airlift Missions A multibillion-dollar program to equip the Army National Guard with new fixed-wing cargo aircraft fleet has rekindled a turf battle between the services that was supposed to have been settled more than half a century ago.
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	U.S. Helicopter Suppliers Fear Losing Innovation War The military helicopter business is booming, but the industry mostly is making money fixing up and maintaining the Army's aging fleet. Hardly any Pentagon contracts these days pursue new aircraft designs.
National Defense June 2010 Austin Wright	Army Lays Out Ambitious Plans to Expand Unmanned Aircraft Fleet In coming decades, unmanned aerial vehicles will expand their role in warfare beyond intelligence gathering to become a vital component of attack, transport and resupply missions, said Army officials.
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson	Budget Cuts Force Army Unmanned Aviation to Make Do With What It Has As defense budgets decline, the Army intends to stand pat with four basic unmanned aerial vehicle models, officials said at a recent conference.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Aviation Must Change To Stay Relevant, Says Panel Army aviators will adopt many of the tactics, techniques and aircraft maintenance practices that traditionally have been unique to special operations forces, said senior officials. This will help prepare Army aviation units for the unconventional warfare and combined-arms operations prevalent in current conflicts.
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	In Future Rotorcraft Acquisition, Services Working to Avoid Mistakes of Past Joint Programs The history of joint aircraft is littered with failures, and when programs do come to fruition, they oftentimes are marred by schedule delays and cost overruns. Case in point, critics say, is the uber-expensive F-35 joint strike fighter program.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2010 Rich Smith	Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? (The Helicopter Edition) As fast and furious as unmanned, horizontal-flying aircraft have evolved, the big defense story in recent months has been the advances going on in robotic helicopters.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army on a Fast Track to Build its Own High-Tech Air Force The Army soon will begin deploying larger quantities of remotely piloted high-tech surveillance aircraft.
National Defense August 2007 Frank Colucci	'Sandblaster' Gives Helicopter Pilots Hope for Safer Landings As early as this fall, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be testing a new landing system for military helicopters that promises safer flying in brownouts.