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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 93 - Colorado Springs - March 2004
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.1 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SUMMARY REPORTS 4.1.2 US Navy 4.1.2.2 NAVAIR
Title	NAVAIR
Presenter	Roger Burton
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Abstract	The VTUAV is a joint USN/USMC system to provide a Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RSTA) / Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and communications relay capability. The RQ-8A Fire Scout system consists of the Air Vehicle, USN/USMC Tactical UAV Ground Control Station, UCARS-V2 Ship Launch/Recovery, Talon and Grid Ship Deck Restraint, EO/IR/LDRF Payloadand a Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL). The program is currently being restructured with several phases being planned. A new design phase that includes enhanced supportability, weaponization and plug and play is currently under way and will be concluded in FY06. Production is scheduled to begin in FY08 and lat four years. The flight control design includes a low speed 10 hz outer loop and 100 hz inner loop. The inner loop gain and phase margin characteristics generally meet ADS-33 ACAH level 1 requirements. Navy test and evaluation began in May 2002 and shipboard testing will be conducted at the end of FY04. There have been 104 flights for a total of 78 flight hours. The maximum airspeed and altitude achieved to date has been 97 KTAS and 8,000 feet. Accomplishments to date include clearing the initial flight envelope, demonstrating autonomous and override flight operations, demonstrating payload in flight including laser operation, demonstrating GCS and TCDL, and multi-site operations including shipboard operations. The shipboard operations consisted of EMC soft, ship to shore based AV connectivity checks, launch and recovery of shore based AV from shipboard GCS using TCS and ship based control of AV and ship approaches. The program completed the first UCARS landing (land based) in November 2004. The Navy’s plans for the VTUAV are to continue flight test to demonstrate shipboard landing & take-off, continue EMD to support LCS flight 0 in FY07, make performance improvements that include a new rotor system (RQ-8B), plug and play payload, weaponization and make survivability enhancements.