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Near-Peer Competition is Back:
Are We Ready Now and Into the Future
February 6 - 8, 2018  San Diego Convention Center
#WEST2018

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WEST Theater: How Will Unmanned Operations Change the Way the Navy Employs Rotary Wing Aircraft?

  • Room: Hall E, front of 2600/2700 aisle
Wednesday, February 07, 2018: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Speaker(s)

Moderator
August Cole
Writer in Residence/Senior Fellow
Avascent/Atlantic Council
Panelist
Col Che Bolden, USMC
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-7 Modernization and Development
Marine Corps Installations Command
Panelist
Dr. Graham Drozeski
Program Manager, Tern Project
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Panelist
CDR Edward Johnson, USN
Requirements Officer
MQ-8 Fire Scout
Panelist
LCDR Evan Young, USN
MQ-8 Integrated Transition Team LEad
Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Pacific Fleet

Description

This panel will discuss the impact of unmanned helicopters on the future operations of the rotary force. Speakers will address changes to endurance, range, payload capability, and training; discuss how warfare commanders will exploit capabilities of the MQ-8 Fire Scout in operating in strike groups and distributed surface action groups; and brief the testing, evaluation, and future deployment of the MQ-8C, the next and newest variation of the Fire Scout. Stop by their space on the exhibit floor in Hall G to talk with the pilots and see and touch the MQ-8B and MQ-8C .

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