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US Army Aviation to Establish Master Open Architecture Lab by December

US Army Aviation to Establish Master Open Architecture Lab by December
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters carrying distinguished visitors arrive for Army Day 2018, Feb. 9, 2018, Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait. Army Day was the opening event for U.S. Central Command’s Component Commanders Conference that allowed U.S. Army Central to showcase the Army’s capabilities at the theater level. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Ty McNeeley, U.S. ARCENT PAO)

By December, U.S. Army Aviation expects to open its new Combat Aviation Brigade Architecture Integration Lab (CAB AIL) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to integrate government and industry prototyping and improve planning for the entire rotorcraft fleet.Several labs will ultimately be consolidated into the CAB AIL, including the rotary wing aviation software integration lab (RWA-SIL), the joint software integration lab (JSIL), the S3I aviation integration lab (SAIL), the distributed test control center (DTCC), and the advanced prototyping experimentation (APEX) facility. Streamlining innovation…

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