ARMY AVIATION DECISIVE IN LAND WARFARE

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US Army Aviation Center of Excellence

CW5 Joe RolandChief Warrant Officer of the Branch

MG Bill GaylerCommanding General

CSM Greg ChambersCommand Sergeant Major

2018 AAAA Mission Solutions Summit

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Contextual Challenges

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Aviation Enterprise Initiatives

DRAFT

Focus on tactical competence within our Aviation Warfighters to improve readiness for LSCO while capitalizing on our existing COIN expertise

Aviation Warfighting Initiative

Army Techniques Publications

Course Management

PlansFSXXI Student

HandoutsAircrew Training

Manuals

Aviation Battlebook

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Grey Eagle

Battlefield Framework

Simplified Problem: We are in contact with the enemy while they remain largely out of contact

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Required Attributes Relationship of Attributes: Reach (Agility,

Range, Endurance, Speed), Protection, Lethality & Sustainment

Ability to Sense, See, Identify, Geo-Locate,Share, Target & Kill

PrioritiesEnduring: ASE and LethalityNear Term: FVL, AUAS, ITEP, CH-47F Block IIMid Term: Advanced teaming of FVL and AUAS

seamlessly connected with intel, maneuver, and fires networks

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PROPHET

Shadow

Not to Scale

Hardest Problem to Solve

Consolidation Area Close Area

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Dependable – Committed to supporting commanders and Soldiers on the ground

Lethal – Skilled at employing weapon systems (organic and other)

Professional – Character, Competence, and Commitment

Expert In:

• Doctrine

• Warfighting

• Survival

• Sustainment

• Leadership

Conditioned & Ready – Maintains excellent physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual condition

Proud of the Army Aviation legacy and ready to add to the lineage of the branch

The Aviation Soldier Is Our Most Precious Resource and Our #1 Weapon System

The Army Aviation Soldier Is…

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Questions/Discussion

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

Sir Winston Churchill

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Resourcing the Strategy

“Gold Plated”Pure-Fleet

Programs of Record

TODAY “Good Enough”Mixed-FleetStandards of Record

ASE – Aviation Survivability Equipment EA – Electronic Attack ES – Electronic SurveillanceAUAS – Advanced Unmanned Aerial System EAD – Echelons Above Division ITEP – Improved Turbine EngineATDS – Advanced Threat Defeat System

Aviation Modernization Priorities

Problem to be solved: How is Army Aviation best postured to remain a critical component of ground maneuver in future operating environments?

Optimally manned aircraft w/ increased reach, protection, lethality, and agility at the objective able to fly and fight in any environment

Multi-function sensors and payloads that are affordable and rapidly tailorable via aircraft agnostic, open mission systems architectures

Advanced Unmanned Aircraft Systems teamed with FVL that are lethal, survivable, and purpose-built for multi-domain reconnaissance and effects

Air-Ground communications that seamlessly connect aviation platforms with intelligence, maneuver, and fires networks

Long Range Fires that provide dominance in range, munitions, and target acquisition to support maneuver, counter enemy-long range ground systems, and expand fires overmatch at operational distances

Regain Overmatch