TrainingIndustrynews

Published Bi-Monthly • october 2012

Vol. 23 • No. 4

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In This Issue 1 Current News 2 President’s News 3 The Global Marketplace 5 Training & Simulation Report 7  Contracts 8 Who’s Where 9 Major Program Report 12 NTSA Corporate Members

Current news

IAI Plans More Spending On R&D, Advanced Technologies Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The new chief at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) plans to push the company to spend more on research and development and increase investments in technologies including advanced cyber, stealth, radar, communications, air defense, gallium nitride microchips and unmanned aircraft. On the commercial side, the emphasis will be on producing longer-range executive jets. There also is pressure in both Israel and the U.S. to create lower-cost stealth unmanned aircraft designs like the RQ-170 that can serve as a truck and network node using easily interchangeable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads. “Those are delicate things. I cannot elaborate, but IAI through the years has done everything it can to keep the technological and operational edge,” said Joseph Weiss, IAI’s new chief executive officer.

Cyber Chief: Cyber Legislation Needed ASAP Reprinted from Defense Daily

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The head of Cyber Command warned that congressional delay in passing cybersecurity legislation is putting the nation at risk, while he also sought to allay concerns about the government receiving information about the private sector’s internet activity. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of the Cyber Command and head of the National Security Agency, avoided commenting during a speech on the multiple cybersecurity bills lawmakers are debating. Yet he emphasized the need for legislation that enables and encourages infrastructure entities, such as electrical grids and banks, to quickly tell the government when they are under cyber attack. “One of the things we have to have (with legislation), is if the critical-infrastructure entities, such as electrical grids are being attacked by something, we need them to tell us at network speed,” Alexander said during a speech at the American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington. “It’s like a missile coming into the United States,”

he said, adding that someone would not notify the government about an incoming missile via “snail mail.” He said the notification about cyber attacks could be in “real time,” but under a construct where citizens know “that we’re not looking at (taking actions that would raise concerns about) civil liberties and privacy.”

Offense at Last Reprinted from Aviation Week & Space Technology

After years of frustration in the development of cybertools, cyberpolicy and cybercommand and control, both the White House and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) have new initiatives. Plan X is Darpa’s concept to improve cyberwarfare weaponry, define operational employment and deflect counterattacks. The program is expected to invest $110 million into research during the next five years to support offensive military operations. Darpa expects to generate a formal solicitation for proposals in the form of a broad agency announcement. That document is designed to deliver details on the capabilities being sought. Plan X will align with Darpa’s cyberanalytical framework and is being organized to tie together efforts in academia with those of defense industries and commercial technology to develop the platforms needed by the Pentagon to plan for, conduct and assess cyberwarfare in a way similar to how kinetic strikes are handled now.

UCAS Takes More Steps Toward Carrier Ops Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

With the first phase of X-47B flight testing complete, the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman are turning their focus to preparing the unmanned combat air system (UCAS) for the first trials of a pilotless, tailless, stealthy aircraft on an aircraft carrier deck. The program, estimated to cost at least $1.5 billion over six years, is a linchpin in the Navy’s efforts to introduce unmanned aircraft onto its carCurrent News cont. on page 4

President’s notes

Rear Adm. Robb, USN (Ret.)

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veryone from SecDef on down has stressed the vital importance of not repeating the past error of hollowing out the force following drawdowns of overseas operations.  If readiness is not to suffer during this transition, we must increase our investment in cost effective training systems, concepts and technologies that allow our forces and the industrial base to adapt to an ever changing list of current and future security threats affecting the nation. Given these two imperatives--the need to reduce costs wherever and whenever possible while simultaneously maintaining high levels of readiness through training--and we have a perfect argument for the augmentation of simulation training across the board.  Couple this with simulation’s increasing ability, through dramatic technological advances, to fully supplant live training in many instances--and it becomes clear why modeling and simulation are enjoying a long second look within the national security establishment.  In fact, I believe we are now in a period when modeling, simulation and virtual reality training methodologies are not merely an adjunct to live training--they are indispensable. The American people continue to develop and expand their understanding of what constitutes and affects the strength of the nation. To this point, the last chairman of the Joint Chiefs stated the principal threat to the United States was the national debt. Modeling and Simulation now provides key decision support for the security of our nation in a larger context. Some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in M&S applications are now occurring in such diverse fields as economics, transportation, energy, climatology, epidemiology, disaster preparedness, environmental research and a host of areas unforeseen a few short years ago.  In addition, two rapidly evolving areas—unmanned air systems utilization and cyber security preparedness—rely heavily on simulated environments for training that are indistinguishable from the actual mission. We at NTSA are proud to play a key role in advancing M&S applications and technologies across the entire spectrum of use. We are excited and optimistic about its future and its ability to make a meaningful, lasting contribution to our national security and national well being.  We are postured to serve as a constant point of contact for government, academia, industry, research organizations and the military to exchange information, share knowledge, align business interests, and in general to stimulate the growth and overall dynamism of the industry and community of practice.  While we of course pursue these goals through a series of conferences, meetings and exhibitions throughout the year, our Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is single most important such event worldwide, offering an indispensable venue for first-hand contact that

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cannot be replicated in any other format.  I/ITSEC is a conference as well as an exhibition, making its contribution orders of magnitude greater than a single-element event.  At I/ITSEC, the present and future promise and potential of modeling, simulation and virtual reality technologies are explored and analyzed through a series of ground breaking special events and dozens of probing research papers and presentations. We are proud that I/ITSEC remains the world’s largest event of its kind and an irreplaceable date on the calendar of the worldwide modeling and simulation community, and are committed to making it better. We continue to see increased interest and attendance by foreign governments and business. This year we also are highlighting excellence in acquisition with a one of a kind panel comprised of the Honorable Frank Kendall (Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology) and the lead acquisition professionals from the four Services. Two things that became extremely clear to me this summer as we worked with our government and industry partners to navigate a tough budget climate and backlash from the GSA scandal; 1) support for I/ITSEC has never been better, and 2) I/ITSEC brings great and tangible value to its constituents. Our non-profit sponsorship of the event and robust training, education, scientific and technical programs continue to put I/ITSEC at the top of the “must attend” lists across government and industry. In 2011, over 20,000 attendees interacted with more than 550 exhibitors from industry, government, academia and research organizations in an exhibition hall covering more than half a million square feet. This is the place M&S leadership meets and that will be true again in December 2012. See you in Orlando!

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The Global marketplace Russia to Build Thales Imaging Systems Reprinted from Jane’s Defence Weekly

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NTSA Executive Committee Officers Chairman Mr. Trevor Huth DRC Vice Chairman Mr. De Voorhees GDIT Secretary Mr. Pete Swan VT Mäk Deputy, M&S Awards Mr. Perry Geib ATSIM, Inc. Deputy, STEM Initiative Mr. Charles Bartel Moog, Inc. NDIA President LTG Larry Farrell, USAF (Ret.) NTSA President RADM James Robb, USN (Ret.)

Russia is to manufacture French thermal imaging equipment following the signing of a contract between Thales and Rosoboronexport at Eurosatory 2012 in Paris. The contract is the latest in a series of agreements by Russia with Western firms for the production/purchase by Russia of Western equipment. At a formal signing ceremony Rosoboronexport and Thales Optronics finalized a license agreement for the production of the Thales’ Catherine XP thermal imagers at the Volgoda optical-mechanical plant in Russia. It is understood that Russia intends to install the Catherine XP thermal imaging systems on Russian-built armored vehicles, intended for both the domestic and export markets. Thales and Rosoboronexport have a significant history of past defense trade, although this signing is understood to mark the first licensing agreement of Thales Optronics equipment within Russia.

Will Foreign Markets Provide the Boost?

having great potential for foreign military sales is General Dynamics’ M1 Abrams tank. But “if you’re talking about countries that can be considered contenders to buy the M1, you can probably count them on half a hand’s worth of fingers,” cautioned Byron Callan, director at Capital Alpha Partners. Since American systems are highly engineered, there will always be affordability issues, he said. Even if Foreign Military Sales increase for U.S.-based defense manufacturers, Michael Lewis, director of Equity Research at Lazard Capital Markets, said he doesn’t see enough gains to offset reduced spending by the Pentagon. “Everyone is talking about the international market and that their international market sales are going to expand,” he said. “Are we going to see a material increase in actual dollar sales to international participants, or is international becoming a larger portion of a company’s sales base because the U.S. market is contracting? I think that it’s the latter.”

Reprinted from Defense News

France, Germany Sign Defense Agreement

Gen. Ray Odierno, The U.S. Army chief of staff, is fond of reminding colleagues, audiences—and perhaps most importantly, the media—that the Asia-Pacific region is home to seven of the world’s 10 largest land armies, which makes his service a critical component of any strategic “pivot” to the region. The leaders of those seven armies no doubt are paying close attention as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta jetted around the region in a series of meetings with his counterparts to discuss regional security. The region also is home to the world’s five largest arms importers—India, South Korea, Pakistan, China and Singapore—which together represent 30 percent of global arms sales. India alone is responsible for 10 percent of all global arms imports, according to SIPRI, the Swedish research center. That makes the Asia-Pacific region in general, and India in particular, important for U.S. defense manufacturers looking to expand their international reach now that the domestic market is heading for some belt-tightening. One of the platforms that has been touted as

Reprinted from Jane’s Defence Weekly

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France and Germany have signed a wide-ranging letter of intent that will broaden military procurement and development cooperation in areas ranging from unmanned aerial vehicles to future land combat systems: an agreement that points to greater multi-lateral cooperation in Europe, with Paris as a hub. Germany announced the letter of intent on 14 June. It had been signed by the countries’ defense ministers earlier in the day. The letter of intent covers the exploration of opportunities relating to space technologies; land systems (including future artillery systems and lightweight combat systems); helicopters; air and missile defense; common aircraft approval standards; marine systems; logistics; and mediumaltitude long-endurance unmanned aerial systems for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance roles. Five working groups will be established by Berlin and Paris to drive cooperation in the space, land systems, helicopters, military aircraft and missile defense domains. Global Marketplace cont. on page 9

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Current from page 1 rier decks alongside a future fleet of stealthy, single-engine F-35s made by Lockheed Martin. Though UCAS was crafted merely as a demonstration effort, it is a key precursor to the unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike program that the Navy hopes will enable it to actually field four to six unmanned aircraft on a carrier in the near term. The Navy’s two X-47B air vehicles executed 23 flights between February 2011 and May 2012 during testing at Edwards AFB, California. Both have now arrived at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, to begin the next phase of flight testing in preparation for sea-based trials next year, says Carl Johnson, vice president for Northrop Grumman’s X-47B. The plan for the Edwards testing phase, which was scoped to include the envelope expansion work needed to operate on and around a carrier, included nearly double the number of flights executed. “We finished way ahead of plan because our modeling and simulation was very good and because our aircraft was very reliable,” Johnson says. During testing at Edwards, the aircraft exceeded 15,000 feet altitude and executed maneuvers essential for aircraft carrier operations.

AUVSI Releases Code of Conduct to Build Confidence in UAVs Reprinted Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Anticipating regulations clearing the use of unmanned aircraft systems in U.S. airspace, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is hoping to set a baseline of standards with the release of an “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations Industry Code of Conduct.” FAA is under congressional mandate to create a plan that would integrate unmanned aircraft systems into national airspace by September 30, 2015. The deadline is one of a series regarding unmanned aircraft systems that the FAA must meet for the gradual integration of the systems. The code of conduct, meant as guidance for unmanned aircraft systems manufacturers and users, comes as AUVSI has been pushing regulators to expedite release of a proposal covering the operation of small unmanned aircraft systems. AUVSI wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in May saying the proposal must be released “to begin the debate” on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems. AUVSI acknowledges that the future of unmanned aircraft systems depends on the ability to safely operate the systems. “The nature of unmanned aerial systems and the environments [in] which they operate, when not managed properly, can and will create issues that need to be addressed,” the association says. “Our industry has an obligation to conduct our operations in a safe manner that minimizes risks and instills confidence in our systems.” But whether the code will help quell concerns over unmanned aircraft systems remains to be seen. Aviation community leaders

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have questioned the effectiveness of see-and-avoid mechanisms, while civil liberties groups have raised privacy questions.

India Prepares to Install Missile Shield Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

India is preparing to install a shield to protect against intermediaterange ballistic missiles and ICBMs in some of the country’s major cities. “The final locations, which have adequate stealth features and protection against enemy sabotage, will soon be determined by the government to install the ballistic missile defense system,” a defense ministry official says. A detailed proposal is currently being prepared for approval by the Indian government. “Initially the sites are likely to be the national capital, New Delhi, and the country’s financial hub, Mumbai,” the defense official said. The shield, developed by India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has undergone a series of successful tests. It can destroy an incoming ballistic missile with a range of up to 2,000 km (1,240 miles). The DRDO used variants of surface-to-surface, short-range Prithvi missiles as simulated targets and intercepted incoming missiles in test firings. “India’s ballistic missile defense program has a two-tiered system, with the Prithvi air defense for high-altitude, exoatmospheric [interception] and advanced air defense for low altitude endoatmospheric interception. Future plans include two new antiballistic missiles at a range of around 5,000 kilometers by 2016,” the defense official said. DRDO said the system is comparable with the U.S. Patriot system, which was successfully used during the 1990 war against Iraq.

Senators to Industry: Describe DoD Budget Cut Perils Reprinted from Defense Daily

Seven hawkish senators asked the nation’s largest defense contractors to describe how a potential $500 billion cut in Pentagon spending over the next decade would impact their firms. The senators—members of the Senate Armed Services Committee including Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ)—sent the inquiry letters as they try to learn more about the impact of the so-called sequestration cuts to the defense budget, which may start next January unless Congress stops them. The Senate Armed Services Committee members say that though the sequestration cuts are due to start in six months, under current law, “significant questions exist regarding the implementation of these automatic budget cuts and how they will impact federal government operations, our economy, and the defense industrial base.” The senators tell the defense contractors that “we must have a full understanding of the implications of budget sequestration on the defense industry in order to make fully informed decisions on defense programs and activities as we move forward in the fiscal year 2013 budget review.” Current News cont. on page 10

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Training & Simulation report Growth Expected in Training and Simulation as Budgets Shrink

New Testing Simulator for MEADS Delivered

Reprinted from Jane’s Defence Weekly

Reprinted from Defense Daily

The virtual and simulation-based training sector is expected to grow in the coming years as military officials seek to balance the reality of shrinking defense budgets with the critical need of combat readiness. Simulation-based training offers cost advantages “that cannot be ignored in today’s constrained budget environment,” according to Chris Stellwag, marketing communications director for Canada’s CAE. “The increased cost of fuel, environmental impacts and significant wear and tear on weapon systems all point to the greater use of simulation and synthetic training,” he said. Alongside the potential cost savings are some important advantages to the training itself, according to companies that produce these technologies. “The military wants the ability to plan for missions using ‘what if ’ analysis and decision-support tools, rehearse for missions in real time and then execute missions that will leave less room for surprise outcomes—and be able to do this in real time and in simulation,” said Stellwag. The U.S. Defense Department will spend almost $14 billion on training and simulation in 2012, according to some estimates. Lockheed Martin expects the sector will take on added value and importance as budget cuts take effect in the coming years and operational needs become more complex. “Simulation as part of an overall training program presents a safe, effective tool to prepare soldiers, airmen, sailors and cyber experts for the scenarios they’ll encounter during their missions,” said Jim Weitzel, vice president of training solutions for Lockheed Martin Global Training and Logistics. “The objective is [to] train military personnel the way that they’ll fight, and the technology now available offers unprecedented value for training flexibility and increased realism.” Quantum 3D, a California-based company with 15 years in the business, is expressing similar confidence, thanks to budget constraints and interest in lower-cost but still realistic training scenarios. For Quantum 3D, maker of ExpeditionDI—a self-contained, wearable, fully-immersive close combat simulator—cuts to the Defense Department budget mean a greater need for its products: the company’s virtual infantry training program is one of its main growth drivers. “The military is transitioning across the board to virtual simulation to help with troop readiness [and] our products are benefiting from that. We see it as a positive,” said Pratish Shah, marketing director of Quantum 3D.

A new simulator designed to increase the rate of data collection to reduce time needed ahead of flight tests for the medium extended air defense system has been delivered to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Lockheed Martin said. Lockheed Martin, which is one of three firms behind the international venture developing the system, said the MEADS System Simulator generates real-time synthetic targets and validates operational MEADS system performance ahead of live testing. Germany’s LFK and Italy’s MBDA are the other two firms that form MEADS International. “MSS-M allows MEADS to perform real-time, end-to-end, hardware-in-the-loop simulation of various scenarios in the field without having to use live targets for each test,” said MEADS International President Dave Berganini. “The combination of simulated and live targets greatly reduces the overall cost of the flight test program. Our efforts to develop a high-fidelity simulation and the MSS-M enable a much more cost-effective MEADS test program.” The United States, Germany and Italy are the three countries funding MEADS, which is a mobile system to defend against missiles and is meant to eventually replace the Patriot system.

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Lifting the Lid on Next-Gen Avionics Research Reprinted from Aviation Week & Space Technology

Whether it is highly integrated antennas that reduce drag, certifiable data links for unmanned aircraft or simulation tools for NextGen airspace research, it is not often that a major manufacturer takes the wraps off its internal research and development. John Borghese, vice president for Rockwell Collin’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC), says 70 percent of the research organization’s funding is aligned with the company’s business units and 30 percent is directed toward long-term growth, beyond the five-year strategic plans of the businesses. Much of the externally funded, far-horizon work is for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). With its acquisitions of simulator maker NLX in 2003 and visual-system specialist Evans & Sutherland in 2006, Rockwell Collins became a player in the simulation business, reflected within the ATC by research into integrated live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training. Combining live aircraft with flight simulators (virtual) and computer-generated forces (constructive) to conduct more realistic training, LVC was tried in the 1990s, but failed for lack of computing power, data links and multi-level security. “All three are available today,” Borghese says. While it works under an Office of Naval Research contract Training cont. on page 6

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Training from page 5 exploring how to maintain flight safety when inserting virtual and constructive entities into live aircraft cockpits, the ATC is planning to use LVC to conduct NextGen research. “We can bring in air traffic control, the airline operations center and pilots and use LVC as a prototyping tool,” he says. “We can use LVC to do whatifs, to prevent automation surprises and look at the precursors to accident.” Research began in June, using a network linking NASA and FAA facilities with flight deck simulators at Rockwell Collins.

On the Map Reprinted from Aviation Week & Space Technology

Maps are clearly a vital tool for any military commander, but the days when a two-dimensional, printed representation of an area will suffice have long since passed. Dynamic mapping of the battlespace is not new, but 21st century technologies are revolutionizing the collection, dissemination and analysis of tactical intelligence. At the 2012 Defense Geospatial Intelligence conference, participants mulled techniques from simple refinements to enable easier comprehension of an area of operations, to radical concepts intended to predict events based on analysis of patterns in fused geolocated data sets. While historically geoint has been land-based, the maritime domain is becoming increasingly important, driven by the resurgence of piracy, which brings greater urgency to the need for accurate intelligence about shipping movements. Also, year-round access to formerly ice-bound routes demands real-time updates and high-grain detail to enable safe passage through constantly changing sea lanes. The Italian company e-Geos, owned jointly by Finmeccanica and Thales, can collect two complete sets of images of the Northwest Passage within 17 hours from its Cosmo-SkyMed constellation. Analysis of images taken minutes apart can help calculate the speed of the movement of ice and thus aid route prediction. ExactEarth of Cambridge, Ontario, has built a lower-orbiting constellation specifically to map shipping movements over oceans. At 500-750 km the satellites can receive signals from shipboard automatic identification systems, enabling real-time intelligence on any vessel deviating from its planned route, and flagging the location of ships that have their automatic identification intelligence turned off. The benefits of geoint are also apparent to homeland security and police forces. GeoEye of McLean, Virginia, acquired the predictive analysis company Spada in 2010 and now supplies more than 40 customers with predictive geospatial intelligence. The software analyzes geo-tagged data to discover relationships between events and features in the physical and human environment; a proprietary algorithm then predicts future occurrences. The company has demonstrated prediction of phenomena as varied as burglaries and the arrival of invasive species.

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Raytheon Develops Missile Defense Analysis Tool Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

With politicians in the U.S. clamoring for a “hedge” against future missile threats, and budget cuts anticipated on both sides of the Atlantic, Raytheon is pitching a “smart defense” approach. With internal investments, over the last 18 months the company has designed an architectural analysis tool to show how NATO can leverage current missile defense systems against various scenarios, says Wes Kremer, vice president of air and missile defense systems. The modeling capability would allow governments to look at different threats to enable them to pool their assets, but the system’s benefit may extend beyond a mere calculation of which combination of weapons and sensors can best counter an incoming threat. “What it really proved is the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts,” Kremer said.

U.S. Navy Trains As It Maintains Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

As the U.S. Navy tries to get its fleet shipshape following years of neglect, the service has found a way to train its sailors to do a better job of learning the ropes on their own vessels and equipment. “Rear Adm. Dave Thomas, commander, Naval Surface Force, Atlantic and his team have established several waterfront initiatives over the past two years to deliver maintenance training directly to our sailors on the deckplates,” Adm. J.C. Harvey Jr., commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said in a blog. “These various assist teams, mini-camps, and maintenance and operator shipboard training initiatives provide valuable training for our sailors on their equipment, in their spaces,” Harvey says. “Since every ship is unique, this style of ship-specific training avoids the broad ‘not exactly what you will see on your ship’ course content often experienced by our sailors in schoolhouse instruction. Instead, this training is truly hands-on, over-the-shoulder instruction that emphasizes standards and demonstrates ‘what right looks like.’” He adds, “The training embodied in ‘the ship is the classroom’ delivers hull-specific instruction, instills pride of ownership, brings system experts from the technical communities to the waterfront, provides technical oversight to maintenance, and eliminates the need for some generic schoolhouse courses of instruction.”

New Vision System Reprinted from Defense Daily

FLIR Systems Inc. has developed a lightweight driver’s thermal vision system (DTVS) driver’s camera designed to enhance driver safety and awareness through state-of-the-art thermal imaging technology. The DTVS cameras will undergo final user trials before a formal launch expected later this year, the company says. “The Iraq and Afghan wars with the harsh driving conditions encountered and the requirement for 24/7 operations ushered in Training cont. on page 8

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Contracts U.S. Navy Awards Hovercraft Contract Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Navy recently awarded a $212.7 million fixed-priced, incentive-fee contract for the detail design and construction of a ship-to-shore connector test and training craft to New Orleansbased Textron. The cumulative value of the hovercraft contract could reach as high as $570.5 million, if the Navy exercises options for up to eight additional craft. The Navy touts the ship-to-shore connector as a high-speed, fully amphibious landing craft with a 30-year service life capable of carrying a 74-ton payload that can travel at speeds of more than 35 kt., day or night. The sea craft will support rapid movement of Marine expeditionary forces from the sea base to shore and can tactically deliver personnel and heavy equipment to trafficable terrain “well beyond the beach with the built-in reliability to operate in the harshest littoral environments.” The contract framework for the ship-to-shore was a Navy-led effort, enabling “mid-tier builders without air-cushioned vehicle experience to compete for the detail design and construction contract,” the Navy says, an approach that “uses the government’s expertise with the flexibility to make component selections and complete design details for optimal producibility and lowest possible acquisition costs.” It has been a while since the Navy became so heavily involved in a design of this nature. “This is the first major naval acquisition program in more than 15 years to be designed in-house,” notes Navy Secretary Ray Mabous. “The level of detail provided by the government design increased competition, reduced overall procurement costs and leads to smooth transition to full production.” The Navy says the sea craft is an “evolutionary replacement for the current landing craft, air cushioned vehicles.”

Pentagon Tests New Way of Estimating Program Costs Reprinted from Defense News

The Pentagon is putting its new weapons cost-cutting strategy to its first big test as it negotiates with Lockheed Martin over the price of the next batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. Contract negotiations for the production of 32 Joint Strike Fighters began earlier this year. This will be the first opportunity for Pentagon officials to see how well their “should-cost” approach to setting weapons prices works. Under this approach, Defense Department experts review the program’s technical requirements, production and testing processes, and staffing to determine what they think the price should be. That figure is based on reductions that could be made in those areas and efficiencies that should come over time with the

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program, such as improved supply chain management. An independent office in the Pentagon—the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Group, and before that, the Cost Analysis Improvement Group—already assesses the cost of weapon systems for budgeting purposes using sophisticated models that consider past weapon costs. Historically, the budget figure is the floor from which costs rise, not the ceiling under which costs are contained, defense officials have said.

L-3 Wins U.S. Special Ops Satellite Terminal Contract Reprinted from Space News

L-3 Global Communications Solutions of Victor, New York, will supply deployable satellite terminals to U.S. Special Operations Command under a contract potentially valued at $500 million over five years, the Pentagon announced June 20. The indefinitedelivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the Special Operations Forces Tactical Assured Connectivity System family of terminals has a minimum value of $7.5 million, the Pentagon said. According to a Special Operations Command SOFTACS bid solicitation, the terminals will be compatible with military and commercial satellite communications systems operating in the C-, X-, Ka- and Ku-band frequencies. Antenna aperture diameters will range from less than one meter to 2.4 meters, depending on the operating frequency.

Pentagon Counter-IED Work Up for Grabs Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

About 13 percent of the $6.7 billion the Pentagon is slated to spend between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2017 for fighting improvised explosive devices is still up for grabs, with no contractor chosen yet, according to an Aviation Week Intelligence Network analysis of data provided by Avascent 050, an online market analysis toolkit for global defense programs. Countering improvised explosive devices had become a major thrust for the Pentagon in the first half of the previous decade after the U.S. began operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Enemy forces started to attack the road convoys and ground logistic chains of U.S. and allied forces with the powerful, lethal and wellcamouflaged roadside bombs. Data lists the contractor as unknown for $3.5 billion in improvised explosive device contracts during that time, the analysis shows, due in large part to the substantial number of contracts associated with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, whose funding documentation makes it difficult to ascertain the exact contractor involved in many deals.

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Who’s where n Maj. Gen. Bob Steel, USAF (Ret.), has joined Tenax Aerospace, Ridgeland, Mississippi, to lead strategic business development initiatives focused on government, defense and special missions. He was commandant of the U.S. National War College. n David M. Van Buren has been named senior vice president, business strategy of New York-based L-3 Communications. He was the U.S. Air Force service acquisition executive. n Jim Fraser has been tapped to be vice president, government relations of Thales USA, Arlington, Virginia. He was vice president, political relations and compliance at BAE Systems. n Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado, named Jeff Osterkamp vice president for engineering. n Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland, appointed Col. Charles H. Cynamon, USAF (Ret.), senior director of its Defense and Intelligence Systems Division.

n Edward A. Timmes joined General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Fairfax, Virginia, as vice president of its Intelligence Systems business in the Cyber Systems division. n Jay I. Johnson, chairman and chief executive of General Dynamics, Fairfax, Virginia, will retire December 31. Johnson, who joined the General Dynamics board in 2003, became chairman and chief executive in 2010. The board selected Phebe N. Novakovic to succeed Johnson as chairman and chief executive. She has served as president and chief operating officer since May. n David Davenport has been promoted to vice president and regional operations manager at New York-based FlightSafety International’s Gulfstream Learning Center in Savannah, Georgia. n Richard A. Klumpp, Jr., has been named director of strategic planning and deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs at U.S. Air Force headquarters. He has been director of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan/liaison to the U.S. Embassy from U.S. Central Command in Kabul.

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Nuke Weapon Simulators

SIM Slam

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Researchers at Purdue University and the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are perfecting simulations that show a nuclear weapon’s performance in precise molecular detail—a critical tool because international treaties forbid the detonation of nuclear test weapons, Purdue said in a news release. The simulations—operated on supercomputers containing thousands of processors—are needed to more efficiently certify nuclear weapons, and may require 100,000 machines to accurately show molecular-scale reactions taking place over milliseconds.

The U.S. Air Force still does not have an enterprise-wide grasp on its virtual training and simulation efforts, congressional auditors say. The armed service has reorganized offices and undertaken various initiatives to enhance existing virtual training cpabilities, but it has not designated an entity to integrate these efforts or developed an overarching strategy to align efforts and establish investment priorities, according to the Government Accounting Office. This fiscal year the Air Force cut live flying hours, which it estimates will save $1.7 billion through fiscal 2016. Air Combat Command says about 25 percent of its training requirements could be met virtually.

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German company szenaris announced it has delivered its new foldable long-span bridge training system—a virtual-reality system based on existing hardware also developed by the company—to the German Army. Troops who operate military engineer bridging systems are trained in a virtual-reality simulation with networked workplaces comprising several PCs each.

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Major Program report First Lot 3 F-35s Finally Transferred to Pentagon Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Lockheed Martin has finally begun delivery of the latest lot of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to the Pentagon after a roughly six-month delay. The Pentagon has accepted delivery of three conventional-takeoff-and-landing variants and one short-takeoffand-vertical-landing version, says Marilyn Hewson, the incoming chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin, F-35 prime contractor. The low-rate-initial-production (LRIP) 3 aircraft were slated for delivery by the end of 2012. All 17 of the stealthy fighters in the lot—two F-35Bs for the U.K., one F-35A for the Netherlands, seven F-35Bs for the U.S. Marine Corps—are off of the company’s Fort Worth assembly line. The LRIP 3 aircraft had been awaiting official acceptance via the official “DD250” process managed by the Pentagon, says Vice Adm. David Venlet, the F-35 program executive officer. He said in June that the paperwork was taking longer than planned for the turnover process, which he says is “not unnatural” early in the production process. The four new aircraft, which include the Block 2A software, will join 12 already at Eglin AFB, Florida, Hewson says. The Block 2A software will feature a new multi-level security package.

U.S. Air Force Flies Alcohol-to-Jet Biofuel Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Air Force has completed the first flight of an aircraft using alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) biofuel. The Fairchild A-10 completed the test flight from Eglin AFB, Florida, on June 28 “without any issues,” according to the service. The Air Force has approved fleetwide certification of ATJ fuel, following previous efforts involving synthetic paraffinic kerosene fuel produced from coal and natural

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Global Military Spending Remained Flat in 2011 Reprinted from Defense News

World military spending remained flat at $1.73 trillion in 2011 and failed to show any real increase for the first time since 1998. This development, backed by the ongoing economic crisis affecting many Western nations, could signify a trend as governments reduce the size of their defense budgets, the Stockholm-based think tank SIPRI observes in its 2012 Yearbook. SIPRI warns that while wars and conflicts are becoming smaller, shorter and historically less frequent, the potential for escalation continues to exist, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. The Arab Spring demonstrates that new types of conflicts are emerging, according to SIPRI. Despite the decline in the strategic nuclear arsenals of the

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gas and hydrotreated renewable jet fuel derived from vegetable oils and animal fats. Certification of the third feed stock-to-fuel pathway will help the Air Force meet its stated goal of meeting half of its continental U.S. jet fuel requirements from domestic sources of alternative fuels by 2016. Fuel for the A-10 flight test was supplied by Gevo, which was awarded a potential $600,000 Air Force Research Laboratory contract last year to supply up to 11,000 gallons of ATJ fuel. Gevo uses a fermentation process to convert plant sugars and other biomass to isobutanol, which is further processed to produce a drop-in replacement for JP-8 jet fuel. Fuel for the A-10 trial is derived from corn starch.

Foreign Deal Reprinted from Defense Daily

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved an authorization bill for the State Department, which has not been guided by such a policy-setting law since 2002. The Fiscal Year 2013 Foreign Relations Authorization Act “establishes important jurisdiction and oversight authorities in the expanding fields of cybersecurity, counterterrorism communications, and arms-export controls,” Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said in an opening statement for the bill’s markup session. She added: “It helps American businesses by modifying Arms Export Control authorities to reduce obstacles and streamline the process for exporting selected equipment and parts. At the same time, it enhances U.S. security by increasing safeguards against the transfer of U.S. technologies to state sponsors of terrorism and countries subject to U.S. arms embargoes.” Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-CA) laments that funding levels in the bill are lower than what he thinks are “proper to exert strong and effective international leadership.”

U.S. and Russia in 2011, the long-term modernization programs underway in the eight primary nuclear countries suggest that “nuclear weapons remain the currency of international status and power,” said SIPRI researcher Shannon Kile. SIPRI estimates that the U.S., Russia, France, China, India, Britain, Israel and Pakistan combined held some 19,000 nuclear warheads in 2011, a decline from 20,530 in 2010. The reduction in the U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles was mainly driven by the disposal of old and obsolete nuclear warheads, Kile said. The $1.73 trillion spent on the world’s militaries in 2011 represents 2.5 percent of global gross domestic product, equivalent to $249 per person. SIPRI attributes the flatness in military spending growth to the new economic budget-reduction policies adopted in most Western countries, but particularly in the U.S. and Europe.

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U.K. Army Rebalances—Chops 23 Units Reprinted from Defense Daily

U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Phil Hammond has unveiled the outcome of the Army 2020 review, which includes the reduction of personnel and 23 units by merger or amalgamation. “After a decade of enduring operations, we needed to transform the Army and build a balanced, capable and adaptable force ready to face the future,” Hammond said speaking before Parliament’s House of Commons. The U.K. Army will be reduced to 82,000 from today’s 102,000 and rely more heavily on its reserve soldiers. It will be the smallest Army in 200 or so years, some said. The U.S. Army, as well, will reduce in size to 490,000 from the current 547,000 active-duty soldiers. It also expects to rely more heavily in future on its reserve forces. The goal for the U.K. Army of 2020 is similar to that of the United States: a smaller, flexible, agile and adaptable force, repositioned to face a multitude of threats of the future, in an environment that is likely to be very different from the past decade in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Industry Needs Shift in Approach for Program Management Reprinted from Defense Daily

Aerospace and defense industry program managers need to move beyond the traditional fundamentals of delivering a product to become more effective at meeting a changing environment with tougher demands, according to an analysis released by a business consulting firm. Pricewaterhouse Coopers said its study, based on interviews with more than two dozen executives from 23 of the world’s leading companies in the sector, showed program management is shifting past the norm of creating schedules, tracking progress and pressuring suppliers for improved performance. “The report identified key areas for program managers to focus on success: getting systems integration right; solidifying partnerships and joint ventures; agility and speed in business processes; being world citizens in relationship management; and applying a collaborative approach to supply chain management,” Pricewaterhouse Coopers said. The report said the aerospace and defense sectors are facing a convergence of pressure to increasingly innovate while bringing costs down, a distinction from the previous practice wherein one or the other was acceptable to customer needs. The report echoed a similar message from the U.S. Defense Department recently as it faces reduced budgets.

Report: USCG 40 Percent Short of Cutters It Needs Reprinted from Defense News

The U.S. Coast Guard is operating with nowhere near the number of cutters it needs to carry out its missions, a new study has found. Even if the Coast Guard’s entire long-term shipbuilding plan could be met in fiscal 2013, it would represent only 58 percent of the cutters the service has said it needs, says a Congressional

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Research Service report released June 13, “Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress.” The Coast Guard’s shipbuilding plan calls for 91 cutters, made up of national security, offshore patrol and fast response cutters. But it would need 157 cutters to meet every mission, according to service projections outlined in the report.

U.S. Military to Launch Website that Mirrors Reddit Reprinted from Defense News

If all goes according to plan, the U.S. military will soon have its own analog of Reddit, the popular social site where user votes push the best content and ideas to the top for all to see. Called Eureka, the project is slated to go up in mid-July, joining a collection of other Defense Department-only web tools that mirror popular social media sites such as Wikipedia and YouTube. Eureka will be a part of the Facebook analog known as milBook, though the site has been designed to feel independent. The idea is to host discussions that lead to revolutionary solutions—for example, improved training, better ways to secure mobile devices, or any other problems that plague the military and hamper efficiency. “Maybe someone on milBook has that idea or can crack that nut,” said Tom Curran, product director for milSuite, a part of the organization MilTech Solutions that is associated with the Army’s Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical. “It might be a dream, but it might be something that nobody has considered yet.” Eureka will be part of milSuite, a set of social networking tools that live on the Defense Department’s NIPRNet, which contains sensitive but unclassified information or content for official use only.

Strain-detecting Paint Reprinted from Defense News

A new type of paint made with carbon nanotubes at Rice University, Houston, can help detect strain in buildings, bridges and airplanes, according to a Rice news release. The scientists call their mixture “strain paint” and hope it can help detect deformations in structures like airplane wings. Their study, published online by the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters, details a composite coating they invented that could be read by a handheld infrared spectrometer. This method could tell where a material is showing signs of deformation well before the effects become visible, and without touching the structure. The researchers said this provides a big advantage over conventional strain gauges, which must be physically connected to their read-out devices. The nanotube-based system could measure strain at any location and along any direction.

Pentagon Spending Cuts Require Better Tech Investments Reprinted from Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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Current News from page 10 ments will be required to offset the coming reduction in U.S. defense spending, a new study argues. “Strategy in Austerity,” released June 21 by Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA), also argues for exploiting better military technologies, solidly linked to new operations theories, which can allow the U.S. to field a more effective force for the same cost. Defense spending has gone down many times in the past, and that history is repeating itself, as many studies from various sources have pointed out. “Absent a direct, existential threat to the United States comparable to that posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War,” the CSBA report says, “it is difficult to envision anything but a substantial erosion in funding for defense.” CSBA examined two historical cases of major defense spending shifts to look for strategic lessons learned: Britain at the start of the 20th century and the U.S. during 1969-80. Technology advances, unlike smaller bureaucratic quests for spending efficiencies and cost savings, have shown big payoffs. In the years leading up to World War II, the report says, nations that emphasized building expensive carriers over expensive battleships gained greater military advantage. Stealth technology is another example, which has the bonus of “cost-imposition,” a strategy CSBA analysts have emphasized in previous studies. The B-1 bomber’s stealth forced the Soviet Union to spend substantially more to guard its airspace than it would have otherwise. Cost-imposition strategy means investments and spending that disrupt adversaries’ plans and force them to spend disproportionately more. Defense cannot be the only bill-payer to address the fiscal problem, CSBA says. Moreover, failure to deal with the deficit is itself a threat to national security, endangering America’s ability to spend on unforeseen threats.

the Senate Armed Services Committee included a provision that would require the Pentagon to consolidate its network activities to free up personnel who could be reassigned to U.S. Cyber Command’s offensive missions.

NASA Releases Free “Mars Rover Landing” Video Game Reprinted from Space News

NASA has released a new video game that celebrates the landing of its huge Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. The game, called “Mars Rover Landing,” was produced in collaboration with Microsoft and plays on the Xbox 360 system using the Kinect motion sensor. It is available free of charge in Xbox Live Marketplace and Kinect Central. “Mars Rover Landing” allows players to take control of Curiosity’s spacecraft as it streaks through the red planet’s atmostphere on a harrowing journey that mission engineers have dubbed “seven minutes of terror.” At the end, a rocket-powered sky crane lowers the rover to the martian surface on cables, then flies off to crash-land intentionally a safe distance away. Agency officials have said they hope Curiosity’s performance will excite the American public and the nation’s politicians, perhaps sparking a chain of events that will bring some money back to NASA’s planetary science efforts. “Technology is making it possible for the public to participate in exploration as it never has before,” Michelle Viotti, Mars public engagement manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. “Because Mars exploration is fundamentally a shared human endeavor, we want everyone around the globe to have the most immersive experience possible.”

Future USAF Acquisition to Focus on Pacific Reprinted from Defense News

U.S. Regional Commanders Get New Cyber Muscle Reprinted from Defense News

Just as details of the covert American/Israeli collaboration in the delivery of the famed Stuxnet bug surface, the U.S. Defense Department has created a formal structure for cyber operations that places increased capability in the hands of geographic combatant commanders. The structure, based on the outline drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in January, creates new cyber-focused structures within each command that will organize the implementation of intelligence and cyber tools, both defensive and offensive. The transitional structure will be evaluated and potentially improved within the year.

U.S. Short on Offensive Cyber Experts Reprinted from Defense News

While recent news stories herald the previously undisclosed offensive cyber capabilities of the U.S., buried deep within recent congressional legislation is an admission that the Pentagon is actually understaffed when it comes to offensive cyber operations. In its version of the Defense Authorization Bill for fiscal 2013,

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The U.S. Air Force will return to its roots in the coming years, tailoring its acquisition needs to meet the Pentagon’s Pacific-focused military strategy by buying stealthy aircraft and systems. That means the service will look to purchase systems and aircraft—particularly a new bomber—that can fly without being noticed in denied airspace, a reversal of Air Force operations over the past decade. “I think right now what we’re trying to do is remind everybody that we’ve got to start planning to build systems and to field capabilities to fight in a contested environment again,” Lt. Gen. Charles “CR” Davis, the Air Force military deputy for acquisition, said during his first interview since becoming the service’s top uniformed weapons buyer. Several Air Force systems, from unmanned aircraft to sensors, have played a major role in counterinsurgency operations over Iraq and Afghanistan. However, many of them are easily detected on radar, meaning they are vulnerable to surface-to-air missiles. “We’ve become very good at fielding the conventional, nonhardened, non-threatened type of systems,” Davis said. “Now, we’ve got to take a look at a different kind of mindset when we start planning for how we’re going to tailor acquisition for that.”

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Concurrent Technologies Corporation CSC Cubic Defense Applications, Inc. DI-Guy (Boston Dynamics) DiSTI DRC Dynamic Animation Sytems Elbit Systems, Ltd. Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) Engineering Support Personnel Inc. Environmental Tectonics Corporation Equipe Simulation FAAC Fidelity Technologies Corporation FlightSafety International General Dynamics Havok ICF International Indra Systems, Inc. Industrial Smoke & Mirrors Intelligent Decisions, Inc. Israel Aerospace Industries, Ltd. (IAI)

JHT, Inc. JVC U.S.A. Kongsberg Maritime Simulation, Inc. L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training L-3 MPRI Laser Shot, Inc. Lockheed Martin Global Training and Logistics LSI, Inc. MASA Group Meggitt Training Systems MetaVR Moog, Inc. MYMIC, LLC Newport News Shipbuilding nGRAIN Northrop Grumman Corporation OPINICUS Corporation Paltech, Inc. Parsons PLEXSYS Interface Products Inc. Presagis projectiondesign QinetiQ North America Quantum3D, Inc. Raydon Corporation

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