Mon, Mar 07, 2011
Aerosonde System To Introduce Future Officers To Unmanned
Aircraft
Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy will learn about Unmanned
Aircraft Systems (UAS) using AAI's Aerosonde Mark 4.7 system under
a fee-for-service contract announced by AAI Wednesday. BOSH Global
Services awarded the contract to provide an Aerosonde unmanned
aircraft system (UAS) for use by the Academy. It includes an
Aerosonde Mark 4.7 system; support personnel to launch, fly and
recover the aircraft; and computer-based training and simulation
software for Cadets to utilize in their training. The academy also
will gain use of AAI's On-the-Move Command and Control (OMCC)
capability, which allows the aircraft to be controlled by personnel
in a moving command and control station. The contract is for a one
year period with an option to extend for one additional year.
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"The fee-for-service arrangement provides the academy with a
flexible, cost-effective, comprehensive system to train Cadets in
the planning and executing UAS missions," says Stephen Flach,
division vice president of AAI's Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
"The academy will be able to draw upon the considerable assets of
this AAI system as they train a core group of future U.S. Air Force
leaders."
Tthe Aerosonde Mark 4.7 is part of AAI's modular fleet of small
unmanned aircraft systems, and was jointly developed and produced
by personnel at both AAI's Hunt Valley, Md., headquarters and
Aerosonde Pty Ltd, the company's small unmanned aircraft systems
business unit in Melbourne, Australia.
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