SBIR-STTR Award

The advanced manned aerial scout (AMAS) project is a phase program to define and develop a moderns light fixed-wing aircraft to be the linchpin of combined-arms operations and dominate the low-altitude battlefield arena. It is intended not only to replace existing observation aircraft, but also to supplant the curtailed oh-58d program compliment the lhxt acaf and interim CAS program and make possible true combined-arms maneuver warfare. Phase I will consist of three focused papers analyzing (1) the low-altitude battlefield arena and the Indian territory' beneath it; (2) the capabilities and limitations of available and projected avionics optronics displays and other technologies having a direct relationship to c3i requirements; and (3) technological advances which would contribute to a combat viable airframe. The three resulting model matrixes will be correlated to define the parameters and characteristics of a complete weapons system which can perform all the necessary c3i battlefield functions of a combined-arms action in real-time and in direct contact with the engaged forces.