28 décembre 2022 | International, Aérospatial
Lockheed challenges US Armyâs helicopter award
Lockheed Martin officially objects to the U.S. Army's decision to choose Bell to build its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, to be fielded in the 2030s.
29 septembre 2020 | International, Aérospatial
Défense Nouvelle commande pour l'Airbus A330 MRTT 2 DÉFENSE
L'Occar transforme en commande ferme une option sur un Airbus A330 MRTT dans le cadre du contrat MMF qui vise à créer une flotte de ravitailleurs pour plusieurs pays européens.
Quatre Airbus A330 MRTT en un mois
Après la commande passée par la France pour trois Airbus A330 transformables en MRTT dans le cadre du plan de relance du gouvernement, c'est au tour de l'Occar transformer en achat ferme une des trois options prises dans le cadre du contrat MMF (Multinational MRTT Fleet) qui porte sur huit Airbus A330 MRTT fermes. Initié en 2012 par l'Agence européenne de la Défense, ce contrat est géré par l'Occar pour le compte de la NSPA, l'agence de soutien et d'achats de l'OTAN. L'objectif est de mettre le parc à la disposition de plusieurs pays européens : les Pays-Bas, le Luxembourg, la Norvège, l'Allemagne, la Belgique et la République Tchèque.
Le Luxembourg veut plus d'heures
Les Etats participant au programme MMF ont un accès exclusif aux ravitailleurs qui sont gérés en pool par l'OTAN. Les coûts et le personnel sont répartis en fonction du nombre d'heures de vol requises par chaque pays. C'est la demande du Luxembourg d'augmenter son quota d'heures de vol qui a d'ailleurs déclenché cette commande qui porte désormais à neuf le nombre d'Airbus A330 MRTT commandés fermes auxquels s'ajoutent deux options. Le Luxembourg veut en effet passer de 200 à 1 200 heures de vol.
Des avions multimissions
Comme les deux premiers exemplaires livrés, l'appareil sera configuré pour réaliser plusieurs missions : le ravitaillement en vol mais aussi le transport de personnels et de fret ainsi que les opérations d'évacuation médicale. La pandémie de coronavirus ou covid-19 a d'ailleurs été l'occasion pour les A330 MRTT Phénix de l'Armée de l'Air de démontrer ses capacités en matière d'évacuation médicale d'urgence dans le cadre de l'Opération Résilience qui a nécessité l'installation de postes de réanimation lourde pour accompagner le transport des patients.
https://air-cosmos.com/article/nouvelle-commande-pour-lairbus-a330-mrtt-23664
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24 juillet 2020 | International, Aérospatial
The unlikely way to improve Air Force information warfare: forums
Mark Pomerleau One way the Air Force's new information warfare command is trying to bring together the disparate parts of the organization is through forums where leaders put representatives from different components in the same room. Sixteenth Air Force/Air Forces Cyber, created in October, combined what was previously known as 24th and 25th Air Force. The move placed cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic warfare and weather capabilities under one commander, serving as the Air Force's first information warfare entity. With all these new wings and capabilities now under a single unit, they need to understand what everyone is doing and how it can feed together. “How do we bring forums together where all of our wings that are focused on a problem can be in the same room and we start to build out what things are they all contributing,” Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, 16th Air Force's commander, told a webcast hosted by the Mitchell Institute. “Then taking it to the next layer, so all the weapons and tactics teams are talking. That simple act of creating a forum was built largely on our component responsibilities. We have very good forums ... for how do we support and produce cyber outcomes. We expanded that forum into an information warfare environment.” Some of this integration is already taking hold. Haugh explained he received a positive update earlier this month about how one meeting had led to fewer stovepipes and more data sharing. In addition, he said he'd like to see more components share intelligence as a way to enable others within the enterprise. For example, if a portion of the ISR enterprise, be it analysis or exploitation, in support of Air Forces Africa, discovers a Russian private military corporation conducting malign activities in Africa, they can pass that to the cyber enterprise to potentially pursue the adversary. Then the cyber element can feed their information or operation back to the ISR enterprise to produce better intelligence for the air component. “This is where for us, that art is starting to come together. Right now, it's very manual, and we're seeing the processes and the data flows start to fall in place that that will become a more automated and routine function that now becomes mutually supportive across our enterprise,” Haugh said. https://www.c4isrnet.com/smr/information-warfare/2020/07/22/the-unlikely-way-to-improve-air-force-information-warfare-forums/
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2 janvier 2019 | International, Aérospatial
Boeing receives $400M contract to keep B-1, B-52 bombers flying
By Ed Adamczyk Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Boeing was awarded a $400 million contract by the Defense Department for engineering services on B-1 and B-52 strategic bombers. The contract, announced on Friday, covers recurring and non-recurring services. The B-1 has been in service since 1986, while the B-52, nicknamed the Stratofortress, was first introduced in 1955. Specific work, covered by a $35 million award as part of the contract and to be finished by Dec. 31, 2019, will be done at Tinker AFB, Okla.; Edwards AFB, Calif.; Barksdale AFB, La., and at Boeing's Oklahoma City, Okla., facility. The Air Force Life Cycle Management office at Tinker AFB is the contracting agency. https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2018/12/31/Boeing-receives-400M-contract-to-keep-B-1-B-52-bombers-flying/5191546274824