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Boeing's innovative solutions help the U.S. maintain global dominance by deterring and defeating the threats of today — for the sake of tomorrow.

By Boeing on October 11, 2022 8:18 am
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Threats today are interconnected across all domains and proliferating at an unprecedented tempo. Meeting and deterring these threats requires close cooperation and coordination between the U.S. Army and trusted industry partners.

At Boeing, we’re committed to investing in and developing innovative solutions that help the U.S. maintain global dominance now and well into the future.

Future of Vertical Lift

We’re modernizing and adapting our enduring Vertical Lift platforms and developing new systems to meet the Army’s multi-domain needs.

DEFIANT X

Optimized for operational effectiveness, agility and sustainability, the Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing DEFIANT X will revolutionize the Army’s air assault mission by bringing speed and low-altitude maneuverability at the X — where staying below the radar is critical to surviving enemy air defense systems.

Fitting in the same footprint as the Black Hawk, DEFIANT X provides revolutionary, affordable, advanced capability. The innovative design also limits changes to tactics, techniques, procedures, training and infrastructure.

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DEFIANT X is the Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing offering for the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program. (Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing photo).

Chinook

With over 60 years of combat and humanitarian experience, the Chinook is the most capable, reliable and advanced heavy-lift helicopter in the world. Thanks to innovation and technological advancements, the H-47 will solve the needs of our customers for another 60 years.

With 950 Chinook operated by the Army and nineteen international partners, the most affordable and battle-tested heavy-lift helicopter in the world is now more advanced than ever.

Powered by cutting-edge technologies to lift more throughout the envelope — the H-47 Block II Chinook flies farther and lifts more. Block II improves readiness for the Army and Special Operations warfighters, while limiting future sustainment costs.

With redesigned fuel tanks, a strengthened fuselage and an improved drivetrain, Block II technology provides commonality across the fleet and sets the stage for affordable future upgrades.

Modernized AH-64 Apache

The AH-64 Apache is the attack aircraft of choice for the Army and 17 partnering nations around the globe. With increasing reach, greater lethality and enhanced survivability, the Modernized Apache builds on the AH-64E v6 and is purpose-built to dominate in multi-domain battlefields.

Combining a battle-tested design with transformational technologies, the Modernized Apache will take the E-model’s Multi-Domain Operations capability to the next level by using a digital backbone, Improved Turbine Engine Program and Modular Open Systems Approach to deliver an unmatched mix of performance and versatility to complement and interoperate with current and future platforms.

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The Modernized Apache will deliver an unmatched mix of performance and versatility to complement and interoperate with current and future platforms. (Boeing photo).

Integrator-EX

Experience matters in unmanned aircraft systems development. Insitu is applying its history of over 1.3 million flight hours to its Integrator-EX (Expeditionary), a mature and dependable system that is supportable in the field and is readily producible and maintainable. The aircraft features critical capabilities that warfighters demand, such as vertical take-off and landing, command and control on-the-move and a Modular Open Systems Approach. Boeing and subsidiary Insitu are integrating and perfecting the Integrator-EX in manned-unmanned teaming concepts, making it the best choice for Army warfighters in competition against peer nations.

Air and Missile Defense

Innovating quickly to stay ahead of today’s threats requires investing in disruptive technologies across our Missile and Weapon Systems division — including digital engineering. Applying digital expertise from our Boeing Commercial Airplanes division and building on the successes made on Boeing Defense, Space & Security programs, we’re leading the way on digitally transforming missile defense.

Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor

Boeing is engaged with the Army to deliver a Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor replacement for the legacy Stinger missile.

The Boeing solution leverages advanced capabilities to realize enhanced range, lethality and end-game maneuverability — while also featuring a Modular Open Systems Approach that enables rapid technology insertion to address current and future threats.

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The Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor will provide Soldiers with advanced capabilities, including enhanced range, speed, end-game maneuverability and a Modular Open Systems Approach. (Boeing photo).

PAC-3 Missile Seeker

For 20+ years, Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3, Missile seekers have protected Soldiers, allies and partners around the world from tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hostile aircraft.

As part of Boeing’s digital transformation, the seeker, which functions as the missiles’ “eyes,” is being digitally engineered and will feature both hardware and software upgrades that will enable it to overcome evolving threats.

Compact Laser Weapon System

Boeing’s beam director and acquisition, tracking and pointing software have an innovative, scalable design that accommodates future upgrades and modernization that will provide Soldiers with enhanced protection against larger and more numerous unmanned air system threats.

Tactical Laser Weapon Module

In partnership with General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), Boeing is pursuing opportunities for a 300 kW-class high energy laser weapon system to support a variety of air and missile defense applications.

Combining both companies’ expertise in directed energy, Boeing will work with GA-EMS to build a best-in-class solution capable of delivering superior, combat-ready protection for Soldiers.

Ramjet 155

Boeing, with investing partners Nammo and Marotta, is developing, maturing and testing our ramjet-powered projectile, known as Ramjet 155, to offer superior, affordable capability, act as a combat multiplier against emerging threats, and support the Army’s efforts to deliver long-range precision fire solutions.

Adaptive and sustainable solutions

Leveraging decades of experience, we’re developing and delivering solutions that are agile, flexible and sustainable.

Sustainability and Services

Our Next Generation Product Support team is providing digital and analytic tools with a proven track record of reducing lifecycle operating costs and improving mission readiness through predictive maintenance, resulting in higher aircraft availability.

By investing in capabilities that support the Army’s prognostic and predictive maintenance, including advanced additive manufacturing, predictive analytics and digital visibility solutions that offer insight for real-time decisions, we’re able to help improve readiness and lower operational costs.

Results that matter

At Boeing, our employees have worked alongside the Army for generations, building enduring partnerships and consistently delivering results when it matters the most. We will continue answering the call to outpace, out-innovate, deter and defeat the threats of today — for the sake of tomorrow.

AUSA 2022

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AUSA 2022

Over at Rheinmetall's booth sat the hefty Lynx OMFV (Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle). The company, as its competitors, is hoping to make a strong impression as the Army looks for OMFV proposals later this fall -- the early stage of an almost certainly lucrative long-term contract award. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
All the way from down under, the Australian firm Defendtex presented some of its modular UAVs. Here visitors can see the Drone155, which the company says can be outfitted with ISR payloads or explosives. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
The MVPP from Globe Tech stands for Modular Vehicle Protection Platform, a vehicle add-on that can take the brunt of improvised explosive device detonations. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
AUSA was well attended by international officers and officials as well, and by foreign defense firms. The Korean booth, shown here, featured some products hoping to make a splash in the US military. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
Not your traditional defense contractor, the computing giant IBM has a booth at AUSA showing off its flashy but functional quantum computer. The US government as a whole, and the Pentagon in particular, are heavily invested in the quantum computing race with the likes of China. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
Among the fleet of vehicles parked throughout the AUSA floor for display was the Flyer 72-U, made by General Dynamics. The company says the vehicle takes a "modular approach" so it can be configured for anything from "light strike assault" to rescue and evacuation. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
The stuff of counter-UAS nightmares, the Virginia-based BlueHalo firm makes drone swarms that use AI and machine learning to provide battlefield intelligence to soldiers. The Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office awarded the company $14 million in February to develop the HIVE. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
It's a .50 caliber Gatling gun, one that Dillon Aero says can fire 1,500 shots per minute, or 25 rounds per second. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
For this year's show AM General rolled its own Humvee Saber, Blade Edition, onto the floor. The company claims "leap-ahead" technology for a light tactical vehicle. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
Patria, a defense firm owned jointly by Finland and Norway's Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, made it's way across the Atlantic for AUSA 2022, bringing along its AMV multi-role vehicle. The AMV was recently purchased by the dozens by Slovakia and its home country of Finland. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
At the Pratt Miller Defense booth, visitors will see a full-sized Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicle (EMAV) is the "newest and perhaps most mobile and lethal" of the company's autonomous offerings. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
Marathon's Autonomous Robot Targets are exactly what that sounds like: shooting targets guided by computer code and designed to "look, move, and even behave like people," the company says. The robots were on the move on the AUSA floor -- though no shooting was allowed. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
The AUSA show floor offered a fresh look at a futuristic version of an old Army standby: the Abrams tank. This one, the Abrams X, is made by General Dynamics Land Systems, manufacturers of the current Abrams M1A1 and M1A2 battle tanks used by the US Army. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
Attendees may walk by model versions of the famous Iron Dome system, in use for years in Israel, and its sister SkyCeptor system, both made by Rafael. The SkyCeptor, in particular, is meant to "defeat short- to medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles and other advanced air defense threats," the company says. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
As the need for counter-UAS systems explodes, Epirus is at AUSA repping its counter-electronics system Stryker Leonidas, made with General Dynamics. The system's "counter-swarm" weapon "fills a pressing short range air defense (SHORAD) capability gap," the company says. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
A new unveiling for AUSA, Rheinmetall announced this week the Mission Master CXT platform, the newest addition to the company's "family" of autonomous ground vehicles. The company says the CXT "combines the power of a diesel engine with a silent electric motor." (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
The GMC Hummer EV Platform, the first vehicle on GM's New Ultium EV Platform, goes on display at AUSA 2022. All-electric offerings are the center of much of the Army's attention these days as it aims to electrify its non-tactical, and eventually tactical, fleet. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
Two new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV) sit at the booth by Bae Systems. The vehicles are meant to replace the Army's venerable, but old M113s. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
Palantir shows off its prototype for the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) vehicle. The company says the TITAN "will be the critical backbone that provides correlation, fusion, and integration of sensor data alongside insights from AI/ML overlaid at the tactical edge." In other words, it's meant to find the signal in the noise. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
A model of a "modernized" Boeing Apache AH-64E shown Association of US Army Conference in 2022. While the Army is about to choose two new airframes, there's currently no Apache replacement on the horizon. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
Lockheed Martin teamed up with Sikorsky to produce the Raider X, the team's competitor in the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, one of two high-profile Army Future Vertical Lift contests currently underway. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
The Bell 360 Invictus is the other FARA competitor, looking to beat out the Lockheed-Sikorsky team. The Army's expected to make its decision in fiscal 2024. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
The defense start-up Anduril has expanded its footprint in the defense market in recent years. This product, the Mobile Sentry, "brings autonomous fixed site counter UAS and counter intrusion capabilities into a mobile form factor," the company says. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith)
The military's no-so-furry friendly robot dogs are back at AUSA this year. This model, called the Vision 60 Q-UGV from Ghost Robotics, is an "all-weather ground robot for use in a broad range of unstructured urban and natural environments for defense, homeland and enterprise applications," the company says. (Breaking Defense/Brendon Smith).
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