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Reductions in USMC Force Structure Won't Affect Plans to Buy 5,500 JLTVs

By Megan Eckstein

The Marine Corps is still looking at buying 5,500 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles even though sequestration cuts are driving the service to lower its expected force structure, a program official said yesterday at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition.

Lt. Col. Michael Burks, the Marine Corps’ deputy to the JLTV Joint Program Office, said during a press briefing that despite the Marine Corps changing its expected force structure from about 182,100 Marine to 174,000 due to budget cuts, “that hasn’t changed the numbers of JLTVs” the service hopes to buy.

“5,500 JLTVs is good enough to meet deployed commanders’ critical mis-sion needs in the Marine Corps’ most dangerous combat mission profiles,” Burks said.

He said quite a bit of analy-sis had gone into reaching the 5,500 figure based on the 182,100 figure, and decreasing the size of the Marine Corps by only 8,000 wouldn’t have too significant an impact on major acquisi-tion programs.

Burks wouldn’t speculate on how the new 174,000 figure would affect other ground vehicle acquisition and divestiture numbers. But Kevin Fahey, Program Executive Officer for the Army’s Combat Support and Combat Service Support, added that discus-

sions so far have looked more at divesting a higher number of Humvees rather than buying fewer JLTVs to accommodate a smaller Marine Corps.

Burks also addressed comments that Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos had made about the Amphibious Combat Vehicle being the top

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ground priority, with the service being willing to back out of JLTV if sequestration makes it impossible to pursue both in the coming years.

“We are in,” Burks said. “The Marine Corps’ acquisition of JLTV and ACV do not overlap. So I reinforce that this is the right time for JLTV for the Marine Corps. It would be disingenuous of me to say that sequestration will not have any impact on Marine Corps’ acquisition of JLTV. That said, I also expect that the Marine Corps will pursue its acquisition objective of 5,500 JLTVs in partnership with the Army.” n

Alcoa, Army To Develop World’s Largest Aluminum Hull For Combat Vehicles

Alcoa [AA] and the Army Research Laboratory launched a cooperative effort to develop a single-piece alumi-num hull for ground combat vehicles to potentially solve the main threat to soldier safety: IEDs.

The single-piece aluminum hull would replace today’s assembled and welded hulls and provide more strength and durability, the company said Oct. 21. The single-piece hull would also reduce the weight of the vehicle, assembly time, and overall cost to the military customer.

“For decades, the Army has recognized the survivability benefits of a single-piece hull due to its thickness, size and shape for ground combat vehicles,” said Ernest Chin of the Army Research Laboratory. “Our collaborative effort to devel-op continuous and seamless aluminum hull technology has the potential to be a game changer for how combat vehicles are designed and made to better protect our soldiers.”

Combat vehicle performance would be improved by a sin-gle-piece hull because using more blast-absorbent Alcoa alloys is expected to further increase damage resistance, the company said. Also, forging hulls as one unit eases three-dimensional shaping, allowing Alcoa to tailor the thickness where needed to maximize protection and allow for weight savings.

“Alcoa has helped the U.S. military stay ahead of emerg-ing threats by innovating durable, lightweight aluminum tech-nologies since World War I,” Alcoa Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Ray Kilmer said. “Our experts are now developing the world’s largest, high-strength aluminum hull for combat vehicles to better defend against IEDs, which have been responsible for two-thirds of casualties in Afghanistan, while meeting the Army’s affordability needs.”

The Army Research Laboratory, in partnership with Alcoa Defense, initiated the program after Alcoa modeled significant performance advantages of the single-piece hull. Alcoa also brings proven advanced materials expertise and experience forging the world’s largest aluminum structures.

This initiative is part of the Army’s Affordable Protection from Objective Threats program, created to improve the military’s defense against modern-day threats, such as IEDs, using affordable, advanced manufacturing technolo-gies. IEDs are a critical threat against soldiers in combat zones.

During the next 18 months, Alcoa Defense, the Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will coordinate research and develop-ment efforts with scientists at the Alcoa Technical Center, the world’s largest light metals R&D facility, to refine the hull design and develop the alloy requirements. Alcoa Defense will then work with engineers at Alcoa Forgings and Extrusions in Cleveland to produce 20- by 7-foot demonstrator hulls to validate the performance benefits. These hulls will be forged using Alcoa Cleveland’s 50,000-ton forging press--one of two heavy closed die forging presses of this size in the United States and a strategically important asset to the defense industry. n

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SAAB Defense And Security Emerges from SAAB North America

Saab Defense And Security USA LLC is the new company replacing Saab North America as part of a corporate effort to gain more synergies and leverage among its business units and to be more effective for its customers.

“It’s a more coherent U.S. base,” with the purpose of using the abilities of its companies to provide better solutions for customers, said Lars Borgwing,

president of the new company. “No one is being laid off, nothing is closing. It’s just more efficient. Saab is maturing in its international outlook and will continue to do that.”

Unveiled Oct. 22 at the Association of the United States Army annual conference, Saab Defense and Security is a U.S. defense company, focused only on the U.S. market only and has a different way of doing business, Borgwing said. Saab North America was more a marketing entity for Saab and Swedish products.

Saab operates four business units in the United States--support, and services, based in Sterling Va., the Orlando, Fla.-based training and simulation business, which is near the Army’s Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), Barracuda, a multispectral camouflage and signature management unit based in North Carolina, and the New York-based Sensis, which encompasses air defense, air traffic control, airline and airport operations manage-ment and data integration and distribution. Radars for the Air Force, Navy and Marines are part of this work.

Borgwing said Swedish corporate parent Saab Group took a look at the four companies, and didn’t see much duplication but many things in common and decided to put them in one company that would have a larger footprint. “They started looking at it about a year ago and started planning for it,” he said.

The four units each have specific missions with no overlap, and together can form better solutions and with access to different customers open new areas.

“Previously, the companies were somewhat isolated, not too much involved with each other, Borgwing said. “Now we’re seeing a lot of synergies.”

As well as being knowledgeable about the capabilities of the four business units, the Washington, D.C. office of Saab Defense and Security are familiar with, and have an insight into all Saab products and how to get them into the U.S. market.

For example, the Army and U.S. Special Operations Command recently awarded an approximately $31 million contract for the Carl Gustaf man-portable weapon system.

Moving into the 2014 fiscal and calendar year, Borgwing said he plans to make sure the new company functions the way it is supposed to.

There is a lot of interest from Saab to grow in the United States, and Borgwing expects a lot of work for the new company going out and competing, looking for the next partners, and seeking opportunities.

Parent company Saab’s ambition is to grow around the world and it has been moving toward this objective in a deliberate fashion, he said. Initially, the company was focused on Sweden, and then moved into Europe, then it reorganized and started establishing marketing offices in different parts of the world, to include the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

A more focused effort is the right move, the company believes, because even with financial constraints the United States is by far the largest defense market in the world.

“There are opportunities,” he said. “Take the right opportunity and Saab can go in and add value, perhaps something that may not exist in the United States and increase the value of its offering.” n

Lars Borgwing, President and CEO of Saab Defense and Security USA

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Successful Milestone C Decision For Army Paladin Integrated Management Program

The Army’s Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) program this week received Milestone C approval from the Defense Acquisition Executive, allowing the BAE Systems’ vehicle entry into the production and deployment.

“Our goal from the beginning has been to field a significant and capable upgrade to our soldiers as soon as pos-sible,” said Lt. Col. Michael Zahuranic, the Army’s product manager for Self-Propelled Howitzer Systems.

The first unit equipped date never moved, Zahuranic said, since government-industry cooperation allowed trades to overcome hurdles.

“The most important target date in any acquisition program is the day you get new and needed capability into our soldier’s hands,” said Col. Bill Sheehy, the project manager for the Armored Brigade Combat Team. “We have stayed focused on that target because of the tremendous teamwork between the Army and industry.”

The PIM modernization effort is a significant Army upgrade of the M109A6 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzer, which includes buying back space, weight and power-cooling (SWaP-C) to ensure the system remains relevant with room to add new capabilities in the future.

While the vehicle’s cannon will remain unchanged the PIM will have a new chassis, engine, transmission, sus-pension, steering system, and improved survivability to go along with an upgraded electric ramming system. The new 600-volt on-board power system is designed to accommodate emerging technologies and future requirements, as well as current requirements like the Battlefield Network. This new power system leverages technologies developed during the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) program and ensures the PIM will have enough SWaP-C growth potential to last until 2050.

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fielded,” said Zahuranic. “Anything new the Army gives us, we now have the power to integrate.”

These improvements will ensure the PIM can keep pace on the battlefield with other members of the Army’s ABCT formation from both an automo-tive and technological standpoint. PIM is engineered to increase crew force protection, improve readiness and vehicle survivability, and avoid component obsolescence.

As a way of keeping life-cycle costs down, the PIM shares power train and suspension components and other systems with BAE’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

“Establishing a level of commonality between the vehicles means increased availability and lower costs for spare components over the years,” Sheehy said.

The M109 Paladin has been a staple of the battlefield for the better part of the last five decades and the improvements made by the PIM will allow the M109 to stay relevant for the foreseeable future.

The Army plans for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) to begin in 2014, with plans to purchase a total of 66.5 vehicle sets--133 total vehicles. PIMs are purchased in two vehicle sets, the self-propelled howitzer and the tracked ammu-nition carrier. Full-rate production is expected to begin in 2017. n

General Dynamics’ To Deliver First Flyer Vehicles To SOCOM In Early November

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Group's Flyer Defense LLC are poised to deliver the first Flyer Internally Transportable Vehicles (ITV) in the next few weeks, under a potential $5.8 million, three-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) for non-developmental V-22 ITVs.

“This award positions General Dynamics as a key provider to the U.S. SOCOM for internally transportable vehicles. By using a high percentage of non-developmental technology the Flyer can be fielded quickly and cost-effectively,” said Tim Neaves, senior director of lightweight tactical vehicles for General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. “The combined knowl-edge and manufacturing expertise of General Dynamics and Flyer Defense will enable us to meet SOCOM's demanding requirements, along with those of other U.S. and foreign customers seeking affordable internally transportable light-strike vehicles."

The contract is for up to 10 vehicles that SOCOM will evaluate, and includes integration and logistical support and training.

Sean Ridley, deputy director for Flyer at General Dynamics OTS, said Flyer’s top speed is 85 miles an hour and it has a range of some 450 miles.

The vehicle is capable of moving over severe, rugged and restrictive ter-rain while providing off-road, cross-country mobility in all types of weather.

Flyer can be easily and rapidly reconfigured in the field and used for a variety of missions, he said. For example, for a medical mission, it can carry four litters, with a second roll cage for protection, or two carry out medical and tactical missions carrying two litters and a 50 caliber.

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Under New Model, SAIC Moves Forward With Mobile Apps

Liz Gormisky

After reorganizing in September, SAIC [SAIC] has taken its “solutions as a service” model a step further by carving out a space in mobile applications for the military.

The company, which now focuses on services and IT enterprise systems, presented several applications in development at this week’s Association of the United States Army annual conference.

Set to launch in beta at the end of the month, TAC-CAM is a mobile surveillance system that feeds into any tablet using an Android platform. With a camera mounted on the outside of a Humvee, the tablet collects high-definition footage with GPS coordinates that can later be reviewed by soldiers for location awareness.

Jonathan Powell, SAIC’s Mobile Apps Task Lead, said the company began developing the app two months ago when an Army unit approached SAIC for help with an app that it had unsuccessfully prototyped on its own.

SAIC and its competitors have been exploring apps for in field and in theater use, but Powell said he believes TAC-CAM will be “the first one that gets to the soldier.”

The company has also been developing Tactical IMI Framework Solution (TIFS) after the Army’s Software Engineering Directorate (SED) expressed interest in mobile field training. TIFS provides training modules on tablets that a commander can use with his soldiers without needing to transport laptops or projectors.

Each soldier has a tablet to follow the course. The app is hardware and platform agnostic, meaning that it can be run through the web on any type of device. The app shows the instructor analytics for how well soldiers score on quizzes. It also has a question feature, where soldiers can type a question to the instructor without having to raise their hands.

Powell said SAIC is working with existing funding from SED, for which it is the prime contractor, but it would need additional funding to take TIFS beyond the development phase.

While the apps keep pace with SAIC’s new model of responding directly to customer needs, Senior Vice President for the Army and Air Force John Gully recognized that demand for mobile apps may wane with the combat drawdown.

“That pull we’ve had coming from the theater for so long is not there anymore,” he said.Gully said the apps, which are more cost efficient to begin with, will still be applicable in peacetime training, as

the Army seeks to keep its soldiers engaged beyond the battlefield. While the technologies are generally new, he said soldiers are increasingly asking for mobile options.

“Army officers in procurement are getting used to it,” he said in reference to the integration of new mobile platforms. n

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iRobot Adds Maneuverable Arm To Its Lightweight FirstLook 110By Liz Gormisky

iRobot Corp. [IRBT] has added a maneuverable arm to its FirstLook 110 model--the five-pound cousin to its popular PackBot.

The company introduced the arm this year and said it “will be going to theater” soon, according to Director Mark Belanger. The latest upgrade to FirstLook was on display at this week’s Association of the United States Army conference.

Belanger said the arm was first requested by squads performing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) missions. “A block of C4 charge is about two pounds, and it can easily pick that up to bring it downrange to detonate,”

he said.The arm, which iRobot developed with Pittsburgh-based intelligent robotics firm RE2, can also move debris to

expose a covered explosive.Introduced in 2011, FirstLook’s lightweight design allowed soldiers on multi-day dismounted missions to carry

the scout and surveillance tool. The smaller model filled the void where the 12-pound PackBot was not practical. FirstLook can be hand thrown and maneuvered with a controller whose screen displays the robot’s camera feed. The battery charge lasts for six hours.

Belanger said iRobot delivered 100 FirstLooks in 2012 and 450 this year to the military. He said the bot is pri-marily used in Afghanistan and for training purposes on base.

Since releasing FirstLook, the company has introduced several optional add-ons, including a thermal camera and a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) feature. CBRN teams can attach a sensor to the bot, which will alert them if it detects an agent. FirstLook’s audio feature will allow the team to hear an alarm, and they can use the camera to view the reading on the sensor. From hundreds of meters away, the team will know what pro-tective suits they need to wear, Belanger said. n

USMC To Optimize MEBs As Stand-Alone Forces For Rapid Deployment

Megan Eckstein

As the Pentagon works to complete its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) due to Congress is February, military leaders may inadvertently end up answering a fundamental question: can the Defense Department continue carrying out the current military strategy--with a rebalance to the Pacific while maintaining a strong presence in the Middle East at the heart of the strategy--given the department’s fiscal constraints, or do officials need to consider altering the strategy to better reflect DoD’s expected level of resources?

Maj. Gen. Frank McKenzie, the Marine Corps’ representative to the QDR, told the Center for Strategic and International Studies yesterday that, “for example, are we going to continue with the tenets of the strategic guidance, perhaps albeit at a higher level of risk? Or are we going to say that we need to back off and need to take a look at a whole new type of strategy?”

Though those big-picture questions still remain open, McKenzie said there was quite a bit of clarity in what the Marine Corps thinks it should look like going forward. However, he noted the final report delivered to Congress would come from the Secretary of Defense and may not exactly reflect the services’ recommendations.

The Marine Corps plans to drop to about 174,000 Marines by the end of fiscal year 2017, McKenzie said, with the focus on being a forward-deployed crisis response force while accepting some risk in its ability to conduct high-end and long-term stability operations.

The Marine Corps wants to grant more control to the mid-sized Marine Expeditionary Brigade to allow MEB leaders to plan stand-alone deployments or seamlessly integrate into existing joint operations without the help of higher headquarters. Photo courtesy U.S. Navy.


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To support that focus, the role of the smaller Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) will be emphasized, with command structure changes being planned to allow the three MEBs to operate as stand-alone forces that can deploy quickly to respond to a developing situation or join an existing joint operation without having to go through a higher headquarters. The command changes will allow MEB leadership to tap into State Department and non-governmen-tal organization resources as well to help plan the most appropriate response to a humanitarian aid/disaster relief (HA/DR) mission or another lower-end operation.

The seven Marine Expeditionary Units will remain largely unchanged.“We will tinker with various command relationships with the Marine Expeditionary Brigades with these MEUs

as we go forward, but nothing that’s fundamental to the design,” McKenzie said.The primary change to the force structure will be providing for two permanent Special Purpose Marine Air-

Ground Task Forces. Since the Marine Corps deployed a Special Purpose MAGTF Crisis Response unit to the Mediterranean Sea last year, other combatant commanders have expressed interest in having a similar force to help provide presence when a MEU cannot be in the area.

“We think, for example, if we keep this capability in the Mediterranean base, by 2017 not only would this headquarters conduct crisis response actions, it would also manage our theater security cooperation activities from the Black Sea in the north to the west coast of Africa to the south,” McKenzie said. He added the Marine Corps is neutral on where the second Special Purpose MAGTF would be based.

McKenzie stressed that the Marine Corps would maintain its ability to assemble a large Marine Expeditionary Force if needed.

“We really don’t lessen the emphasis or the importance of the MEF because if you go to a high-end war fight you are going to go probably with a Marine Expeditionary Force,” he said. “Rather, we accentuate not a gap, but a niche we’ve identified that we can fill with a Marine Expeditionary Brigade for not a high-end war fight necessarily but rather a large complex HA/DR mission or even a small contingency operation.”

But, the emphasis on crisis response will mean a reduction in capabilities for higher-end operations. To draw down to 174,000, McKenzie said the Marine Corps will shrink its tank and artillery forces. n

JLTV Officials: CR Will Hurt Program If Full Budget Isn't Passed SoonBy Megan Eckstein

Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program officials said the government shutdown earlier this month and the continuing resolution that funds the government through Jan. 15 are complicating an otherwise simple acquisition program, leaving the program with no good option other than to continue with vehicle testing as planned and hope Congress funds the program at the Army’s requested level in January.

Kevin Fahey, Program Executive Officer for the Army’s Combat Support and Combat Service Support, said the JLTV program needs about $50 million more this year than it received in fiscal year 2013. Under the continuing resolution passed to reopen the government last week, each program will only receive a sum of money to fund it at FY '13 levels through Jan. 15--or about a quarter of the FY '13 budget.

Fahey said that the shutdown and the subsequent CR “put a real stress on programs, probably no program more than JLTV.” The program is testing 66 vehicles at several proving grounds across the country, and it needs full funding--about $135 million between the Army’s and Marine Corps’ research and development accounts--to get the testing done in time to support a July 2015 downselect to a single contractor. Oshkosh Defense [OSK], Lockheed Martin[LMT] and AM General are competing for the award.

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AM General's JLTV is one of three competing for a con-tract, set to be awarded in July 2015 if the program can stay on track despite furloughs and budget uncertainty. Photo courtesy U.S. Army.


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GAO Annual Assessment: DoD Major Acquisition Programs Down In Size And Cost From 2011By Ann Roosevelt

The Department of Defense 2012 portfolio of 86 major defense acquisition programs is estimated to cost a total of $1.6 trillion, reflecting decreases in both size and cost from the 2011 portfolio, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said.

This is GAO's annual assessment of DoD weapon system acquisitions, an area that has been on the office’s high-risk list for more than 20 years. The 190 page report GAO-13-294SP was released this month.

DoD commented on the draft report, agreeing the cost reductions in its portfolio over the past year were largely due to programs leaving the portfolio and reductions in procurement quantities. However, DoD said the metrics GAO used did not adequately address program performance or answer the questions of “when, why, and how” changes occurred. GAO said it believes the report addresses these concerns.

DoD invested a total of more than $805 billion in its 2012 portfolio and currently estimates that $664 billion is needed to complete the programs that have cost baselines, the assessment said.

“Notably, a majority of programs in the portfolio gained buying power in the last year as their acquisition unit costs decreased,” the assessment said. “DoD's 10 costliest programs, excluding the Missile Defense Agency's Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), drive most of the portfolio's cost performance and funding needs. The majority--65 percent--of the funding that DoD estimates it will need to complete its current programs is associated with those 10 programs, and almost all of that funding is for procurement,” it said.

The 10 costliest programs include the Joint Strike Fighter, DDG 51 destroyer, Virginia-class submarine, F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and V-22 Osprey. Rounding out the top 10 are the Trident II missile, KC-46 tanker, CVN 78 class, P-8A Poseidon and the Littoral Combat Ship seaframes.

The GAO assessors said they identified a positive trend over the past four years: “newer acquisition programs are demonstrating higher levels of knowledge at key decision points, although many programs are still not fully adhering to a knowledge-based acquisition approach.”

Implementation of key selected acquisition initiatives varies among the programs GAO assessed, and the report said programs continue to accept risks associated with concurrently conducting developmental testing and production.


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DEFENSE WATCHThe Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense

TSA Helping Wounded Warriors. Employing its risk-based screening model, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is expanding its expedited aviation checkpoint screening program to included severely injured members of the United States Armed Forces. Beginning last Wednesday, the agency began offering the screening services to the nation’s Wounded Warriors and traveling companions “in recognition of the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform,” says John Halinski, TSA’s deputy administrator. The screening benefits include eligibility to move through security checkpoints without having to remove shoes, light coats or hats. TSA already offers expedited aviation checkpoint screening benefits to members of the U.S. military through its PreCheck program and is now also allowing Wounded Warriors to enroll in the pre-screening initiative.

…Bipartisan Praise. TSA’s announcement was greeted with praise by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) says the policy change recognizes the “tremendous sacrifices for our nation” by the severely wounded warriors while also freeing “up TSA screeners to focus on real threats to our aviation systems.” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a member of the committee and sponsor of a bipartisan bill that called for TSA to makes the changes that it implemented last week, says the move “upholds the highest levels of security while affording a trusted group of citizens the dignity and respect they deserve.”

…TSA Justifies AIT Use. Seeking to comply with a federal court order that TSA propose a rule prior to its deployment of whole body imagers at the nation’s airports, the agency last week issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for on the use of the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) for passenger screening. The rule, which would codify the use of the systems to screen individuals at aviation security checkpoints, says the AIT machines provide the best way of detecting non-metallic threats—explosives and weapons—concealed under a person’s clothing without having to touch the passenger. The NPRM notes that the threat to aviation security has evolved to include these non-metallic threats. The proposed rule also says that the machines are safe to use for passengers and TSA screeners and that the only units that will be used will include threat recognition software.

…A Critic. Despite the publication of the proposed rule in the Federal Register, Marc Scribner, a fellow in land-use and transportation studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says TSA isn’t complying with the court order, which requires a legislative rule. “Unfortunately, the proposed rule more closely resembles a general statement of policy.” Scribner also contends that the NPRM “does not offer any insight into why, where, or how the TSA is justified in using whole-body imaging scanners in airports. And that lack of transparency violates the court’s order because TSA’s rationale cannot be evaluated properly.”


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FAA Set To Engage Public On UAS Privacy Policy

Seeking public comment on its proposed privacy policy for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday will host an online public engagement session to overview the UAS program and take comments from participants.

The FAA in February issued a Request for Proposals for six ranges that will be used to test UAS for integration into domestic airspace (Defense Daily, Feb. 15). The agency plans to award the sites by the end of September.

The FAA said that the privacy requirements that it is proposing are designed for the operation of the UAS test sites and are not intended to “pre-determine the long-term policy and regulatory framework under which commercial UAS would operate.” In tomorrow’s public engagement session, the FAA will listen and record comments on the docket but will not answer any questions.

President Barack Obama last year signed a congressional bill that calls for integrating UAS into the national airspace by 2015. The prospect of surveillance drones flying over neighborhoods and communities by various law enforcement agencies has created concerns for public safety and privacy among various states, localities and lawmakers.

Army Approves Raytheon Patriot Missile Operational Life ExtensionBy Ann Roosevelt

Raytheon [RTN] yesterday said its Patriot missiles, critical components of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, have received Army approval for a second recertification, extending the operational life of the worldwide inventory of Patriot missiles another 15 years.

“The current life of the missile is 30 years, and it was already recertified once, at 15 years,” Mike Fletcher, director of Raytheon's Patriot Systems Missile Program, told Defense Daily. “Now, after a three-year extensive study, the Army decided, based on study results, to extend the (missile's) life from 30 to 45 years.”

When a missile is recertified, the fully assembled missile is removed from its canister and disassembled into its major subcomponents, he said. Then limited life components--such as batteries--in those major subcomponents are changed out.

To upgrade the missile to the latest configuration at the same time as doing the second recertification provides the most cost effective solution, he said.

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Marine Corps Moves On From EFV To Three New

Amphibious-Vehicle EffortsBy Emelie Rutherford

The Marine Corps is busy with its revamped plans for amphibious vehicles, with its major

effort to plan a new Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) taking shape follow the recent completion

of a major study.Col. Keith Moore, Marine Corps program manager for advanced amphibious assault (PM

AAA), is just wrapping up the very final stages of the service’s contractual relationship with General

Dynamics [GD] for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. The EFV, a tracked amphibious vehicle that

battled technical challenges earlier in its decade-long development lifespan, ultimately was canceled

last year by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of its cost. It was intended to be a

swimmable armored vehicle that would quickly carry combat-ready Marines to land from ships far

off shore.Now Moore is guiding three successor amphibious vehicle efforts that are at various stages: the

nascent ACV, which is intended to be a more-affordable alternative to EFV, as well as an upgraded

version of the existing Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) and a new, likely off-the-shelf wheeled

Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC).It’s the ACV that is taking up the bulk of Moore’s time. Service officials have completed an

analysis of alternatives (AoA) on six types of vehicles that could be the ACV. The AoA document

was approved out of the Marine Corps and awaiting final briefings to congressional and Pentagon

officials as of this writing. After the AoA briefings are done, Moore plans to go before the Defense Acquisition Board

(DAB) later this fall for in-process review of the development path forward. Armed with a draft of

the ACV’s capabilities definition document, Moore is hoping the DAB meeting will clear the way

for releasing the first request for proposals (RFP) for the initial ACV development contracts with

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ATK Aims At Affordable Innovation, CEO SaysBy Ann Roosevelt

Despite the current turmoil swirling around the budget, deficits, poten-

tial sequestration and force reductions, a major theme for aerospace, defense

and commercial products company ATK [ATK] continues to be to provide a

quality product at a competitive price allowing additional performance for

the customer. “We talk about affordable innovation--that’s still a big theme that I’m

pushing through the company that we still continue to offer affordable yet

innovative solutions and products to our customer,” Mark DeYoung, presi-

dent and CEO of ATK, told Defense Daily. As examples, DeYoung pointed to the Advanced

Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI), which won the Army’s

Innovations of the Year recognition in 2012. It’s an afford-

able solution to take dumb mortar capability and turn it into

a smart mortar with a precision capability.

That means a reduced number of rounds in the invento-

ry, a reduced number of shots at the target, and importantly

reduces the likelihood that civilians or infrastructure would

be damaged when it’s used.

“This is an example of an innovation at an affordable cost that has life

cycle cost benefits,” DeYoung said.Another example is the Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) for artillery. This

takes 155 millimeter artillery rounds and adds GPS to guide it to the target.

“It’s one of these affordable solutions where you don’t have to replace your

inventory, you simply make your inventory more capable,” he said.

In another area, from a strategic perspective, ATK wants to be a part-

ner. “We want to work with other companies that have capabilities, we want

to help them market, distribute and sell those capabilities,” DeYoung said.

“We want to look for partners where they have potential capabilities or com-

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BAE Developing Smaller Version of AGS

System For Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers By Carlo Munoz

Program officials at BAE Systems are looking to shrink down the company's

naval gun system designed for the Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG-1000)

and install the smaller version of the weapon system on board the sea service’s

Arleigh Burke-class warships (DDG-51).

The Advanced Gun System-Lite (AGS-Lite) will trim 50 percent of the

original AGS design and maintain the same 74 nautical-mile range as its larger

counterpart on the DDG-100, while firing the same 155mm round, according to

John Perry, manager of business development for advanced systems.

A smaller magazine capacity and slower rate of fire are the only real tradeoffs

between the AGS-Lite and the larger AGS, Perry said in an April 7 briefing in

Arlington, Va. The range of fire provided by both AGS systems dwarfs the 13

nautical mile range of the legacy Mk45 deck gun on the DDG-51 ships, he said.

That 74 nautical mile range provided by the AGS-Lite system matches that

of the Tomahawk cruise missile, Perry said. At that range, the new deck gun could

provide vital ship-to-shore fire support and supplement Tomahawk strikes against

targets inland. Currently, program officials have only tested the gun’s range up to 60 nauti-

cal miles, but are well on track to hit the 74 nautical mile threshold, according to

Perry. The AGS-Lite system also features an automated loading system below

deck, which replaces the six-man team normally required to load the Mk45 gun,

according to the BAE official. While no program of record has been established for the AGS-Lite by the

Navy, Perry noted that the Navy’s stated requirements for precision fire support,

coupled with its decision to truncate the number of DDG-1000s in the fleet, vali-

dated the need for the AGS-Lite. The initial AGS was expected to be the main deck gun for the Navy’s future

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Col. John Cavedo, the Army’s JLTV project manager, added that Army civilians in the JLTV Joint Program Office are paid with Army RDT&E funds but the Marine Corps civilians are paid with Marine Corps operations and maintenance funding, so the JPO wasn’t operating at full staff during the shutdown.

Cavedo said the program is a few weeks behind in the testing schedule on a day-to-day level, but in the macro schedule he said he believes they’re still on track. He noted the program still has nine months of testing left and would seek to find ways to save a day here and there to make up for lost time this month. “We’re pretty confident we can do that,” he said.

The CR presents more of a problem, though. Fahey said there were no good options for slowing the spending rate to match FY ’13 levels instead of the planned FY ’14 levels, since at this point the main costs are paying contrac-tors to support vehicle testing and paying personnel costs in the JPO.

“We can’t even begin to tell you what actual date that the money might run out” if the planned FY ’14 spending levels are maintained instead of slowing down to accommodate the CR, Cavedo added.

“If we get a budget soon, I think between these two gentlemen we will figure out a way to get it back on track,” Fahey said, pointing to Cavedo and Marine Corps deputy to the JLTV JPO Lt. Col. Michael Burks.

But if the CR is extended, or if the program ends up with less than its requested total, the three officials said there would be tough choices to make.

“Right now on JLTV, our plan at least for right now is to do everything we can to keep it on track,” Fahey said. “And that’s the direction [from Army leadership] we’ve gotten also. So that’s not one we’re cutting back. Early next year we have to make a decision” about continuing on track or not, he added, noting that the Army could either choose to make hard choices elsewhere to protect JLTV or tell the JLTV program it needs to make hard choices of its own to create its fair share of budget reductions. n


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