The Technical Applications Contracting Office at Fort Eustis, Va. has selected three defense contractors to develop synthetic-vision helicopter avionics that work in dusty conditions for Special Operations Command, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Thursday.
John Keller writes SOCOM officials have allocated between three and five years of technology demonstrations for the Degraded Visual Environment Pilotage System program prior to a contract award.
SOCOM wants the technology to help chopper pilots land rotary-wing aircraft despite brownout conditions and degraded visual environments.
Rockwell Collins, Boeing and Sierra Nevada will develop the technology.
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