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Training systems provider CAE announced on May 27 that CAE USA has been awarded a contract to deliver an initial prototype virtual reality/mixed reality aircrew trainer for the USAF’s new combat search and rescue helicopter, the HH-60W “Jolly Green II”
It’s official name is HH-60W, but we’ll most likely get to know it as the Jolly Green II. It is the future combat rescue variation of the mighty and well-known Black Hawk, currently being developed and tested by Sikorsky and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for deployment in the coming years. This week, the program just got a major push forward.
CAE USA has secured a Project Level Agreement (PLA) to design and develop the initial prototype HH-60W virtual reality/mixed reality (VR/MR) aircrew trainer.
-Implement a new combat air forces force generation model -Optimize wings for the high-end fight -Train Agile Combat Employment-capable forces Years of low intensity combat in the Middle East, coupled with a force management construct not currently optimized for combat in a highly contested environment, has created an opportunity to drastically reform how ACC organizes, trains and equips its forces. “Peer competition, crisis and combat does not provide us with ‘months’ to assess and study requirements, execute the RFF (request for forces) process, work sourcing, schedule deployments and...
-Implement a new combat air forces force generation model -Optimize wings for the high-end fight -Train Agile Combat Employment-capable forces Years of low intensity combat in the Middle East, coupled with a force management construct not currently optimized for combat in a highly contested environment, has created an opportunity to drastically reform how ACC organizes, trains and equips its forces. “Peer competition, crisis and combat does not provide us with ‘months’ to assess and study requirements, execute the RFF (request for forces) process, work sourcing, schedule deployments and...