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Aviation Week
November 28, 2017
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Aviation Week
June 20, 2017
Boeing, ATK join Lockheed Martin in bid to build Blackswift demo Ãâ÷ Boeing, Lockheed Join Forces To Bid For NGATS Contracts Ãâ÷ Raytheon joins LM bid for Aerial Common Sensor Ãâ÷ Discovery Air Joins C295 SAR Team In Canada Ãâ÷ Discovery Air Joins C295 SAR Team In Canada. AdvertisementÃâà...
Chron.com
March 7, 2017
On Saturday, a shocking report by The War Horse revealed that dozens of female military members had their nude photos leaked to an invite-only Facebook page with 30,000 followers. The underground social media page known as "Marines United" was used to share hundreds, maybe even thousands ofÃâà...
Chron.com
December 13, 2016
Monday, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted a few characters and caused a bit of hoopla for Lockheed Martin, the makers of the somewhat maligned F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. "The F-35 program and cost is out of control," Trump wrote. "Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other)Ãâà...
Sputnik International
January 31, 2016
Such pieces of equipment as XM2001 Crusader Self-Propelled Howitzer ($2.2 billion in losses), Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ($500 miillion) and Aerial Common Sensor for shared use by Army and Navy ($100 million) as well as all Next Generation Bomber ($100 million) all made the cut.
Aviation Week
June 16, 2015
This is perhaps drawing on lessons from the company's failed bid for the Army's Aerial Common Sensor program, which cratered once Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions' selection of the Embraer ERJ 145 proved far too small for the mission. O'Banion says the company learned from that bitterÃâà...
Aviation Week
March 17, 2014
Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Army program of record was for 47 Guardrail and eight Airborne Reconnaissance Lows; the ultimate plan was to buy what was called the Aerial Common Sensor (ACS). The Army has long sought a single platform to ease training, maintenance and supply and collectÃâà...
Defense Industry Daily
April 10, 2011
US Army Program Manager – Aerial Common Sensor's (PM ACS) Constant Hawk program is one of several change detection systems in operation, in the service of the second big trend: the drive to find solutions to the land mine problem, which has been the #1 killer in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
IEEE Spectrum
October 31, 2008
In the vast and varied world of advanced military technology, the U.S. Army's proposed Aerial Common Sensor aircraft was neither the biggest nor the sexiest. But it was very important to the U.S. Army. The Army desperately needed the ACS to replace its Guardrails, a fleet of small, piloted reconnaissanceÃâà...
Defense Industry Daily
September 11, 2007
At one time, these light “RC-12 Guardrail” aircraft were one of the 3 electronic eavesdropping and surveillance planes slated for replacement by the joint Army-Navy Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) jet, after many years of service in remote trouble spots and large-scale wars around the globe. Now, they'reÃâà...
