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Army Takes Another Step Toward A New Armed Aerial Scout, Issues RFI

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, April 27th, 2012

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The Army Armed Scout Helicopter (ASH) Program Management Office (PMO) seeks industry information on state-of-the-art technologies that could be used to support the potential acquisition of an Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) air vehicle. The office also is interested in learning industry interest in taking part in a voluntary flight demonstration of their existing air vehicles to display such state of the art in regard to helicopter systems and subsystem(s) technologies. At a recent Army aviation conference, companies interested in a…

Congress

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Congress

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Pentagon

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