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Army Common Cockpit Effort About Architecture, Backbone Allowing Change

Pat Host

Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

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Army Common Cockpit Effort About Architecture, Backbone Allowing Change

Artist's rendering of a potential Boeing-Sikorsky future vertical lift platform. Photo: Sikorsky.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--The Army views its common aviation cockpit concept as an architecture and backbone that allows a cockpit to evolve over time as opposed to simply components, according to a key official."We want to make sure the backbone not only allows the evolution of those vehicles over time but the evolution of the subcomponent," Dan Bailey, Army program director for Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) and Future Vertical Lift (FVL), told an audience here Tuesday at the Army Aviation Association…

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