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Oggetto del messaggio: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ...  Inviato: 23/02/2011, 17:08 |
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AgustaWestland ha intenzione di presentare la nuova versione AW139M del noto elicottero medio AW139 nella competizione "Common Vertical Lift Support Platform" (CVLSP) con la quale si intende fornire all'USAF una macchina destinata a sostituire gli obsoleti e ormai inadeguati Bell UH-1 nelle missioni di supporto alle basi di ICBM sparse negli stati settentrionali degli USA ... Cita: AgustaWestland Debuts the AW139M Helicopter17/02/2011 AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce the debut of the AW139M, the customized military version of the multi-role, AW139 helicopter, integrated with proven U.S. military technology for the U.S. Air Force’s Common Vertical Lift Support Program. The AW139M is being featured at the AFA Air Warfare Symposium, (Orlando, FL, Feb. 17-18, 2011) and is offered for the U.S. military market. “AgustaWestland meets every U.S. Air Force CVLSP mission requirement while offering substantial acquisition and operational savings,” said R. Scott Rettig, chief executive officer, AgustaWestland North America. “The innovation and investment made by AgustaWestland ensures the lowest risk, most cost effective replacement for the CVLSP platform.”
Manufactured in the company’s Philadelphia, Pa. facility and tailored with U.S. military technology from suppliers across the nation, the AW139M includes a high-definition FLIR, self protection equipment including infrared detection and countermeasures, avionics and heavy duty landing gear. For military missions, the AW139M features a low thermal and acoustic signature and is available with a full ice protection system, allowing all-weather operation at the U.S. Air Force’s northern-tier missile bases. The AW139M CVLSP also includes dedicated equipment such as armored seats to improve crew protection; ballistically-tolerant, self-sealing fuel tanks; and an external stores system for carrying gun pods, missiles and air-to-ground rockets. With unrivalled range and the highest power-to-weight ratio in its class, the AW139M sets standards of multi-mission performance in hot and high conditions and with a cruise speed of 165 knots. The AW139M provides 30 percent more cabin volume and 50 percent more payload than the legacy CVLSP platform, while maintaining a similarly-sized external footprint.
AgustaWestland manages an active, highly efficient AW139 production line in the company’s Philadelphia, Pa. manufacturing facility. Used in multi-mission roles by 135 customers in 50 countries, more than 350 AW139s are operational today, flying demanding missions for government customers such as the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Republic of Ireland, the UAE Air Force and others. ... però, alla luce di recenti informazioni, non sembra abbia grandi possibilità di vittoria in quanto i "boss" dell'USAF avrebbero in mente altre soluzioni ... Cita: DATE: 21/02/11
SOURCE: Flight International
AgustaWestland unveils AW139M for USAF, but top commander wants UH-60
By Stephen Trimble
Most companies brought brochures and models to the Air Warfare Symposium on 17-18 February, but AgustaWestland came with a fully armed helicopter.
With a US Air Force requirement to buy more than 90 new aircraft, the Italian manufacturer clearly hoped to send a message by unveiling the first AW139M inside the exhibit hall at the Air Force Association's second-largest public event.
"We'll be able to deliver to the air force's schedule, if not beat it," says Dan Hill, AgustaWestland North America's vice-president of strategy and federal business development.
But the AW139 and at least three other likely bidders may never get the chance to compete for the common vertical lift support platform (CVLSP) contract.
Senior air force acquisition officials will be meeting soon to decide whether the CVLSP contract will be opened to competitive bids, or awarded on a sole-source basis to a version of the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk.
Lt Gen James Kowalski, chief of Global Strike Command, strongly favours the sole-source option. Kowalski is not an acquisition authority, but his preference is important. The CVLSP will replace a fleet of Bell UH-1s protecting the air force's remote nuclear missile silos, which fall under his command.
"I can use an existing contract to purchase helicopters," Kowalski says. "It accelerates that process and maybe removes some things that, while nice to do within the acquisition formal structure, [they're not] when we're trying to do things efficiently and do things the smartest way."
The case for replacing the UH-1 is "urgent and compelling", Kowalski says, because that 1970s-era fleet has been deemed inadequate for the mission since 1996.
The air force had attempted to replace the CVLSP fleet several years ago. The programme was listed as an annex to a requirements document for the combat search and rescue (CSAR-X) helicopter.
A competition for the CSAR-X contract became a case study of breakdowns in the air force acquisition system, with two separate contract awards for the Boeing HH-47 Chinook overturned by protests and the bidding process terminated.
When the USAF relaunched the CSAR-X programme last year, service officials scaled down the requirement, allowing aircraft in the size class of the Black Hawk to compete. At the same time, Kowalski's command began pushing for a way to circumvent an acquisition process entirely, employing an obscure 1932 law called the Economy Act.
The law allows government agencies to award a sole-source contract to an existing supplier for a new requirement if there is an urgent need.
"I have had an urgent and compelling need since 1996 in terms of speed, range and payload," Kowalski says. "The UH-1 does not meet the need. How much longer are we willing to wait and take this risk?"
Sikorsky confirms that it has informed the air force that similar versions of the HH-60M Pave Hawk can perform both the CSAR-X and CVLSP roles.
In addition to the potential time savings, reducing the air force's helicopter fleet to a common platform can provide $3 billion in savings over the next 30 years, says Jim Naylor, Sikorsky's director of business development for aviation systems and a former HH-60 pilot.
AgustaWestland, however, argues that buying the AW139 would still be cheaper than buying only UH-60s.
"We're a third of the price to operate and at least half the price to acquire," Hill says, comparing the AW139M with the UH-60M.
The air force's acquisition system is undecided about circumventing a competition for CVLSP. The AW139 is not the only potential bid. The exhibit hall also included brochures for the Bell UH-1Y Super Huey and Boeing's HH-47. EADS North America officials have previously discussed a potential offer based on the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma.
The final decision on whether to launch a competition will be made by David Van Buren, the air force's acquisition executive, and the Air Combat Command, Kowalski says. "There is still a meeting or two" left before a decision is reached, he adds.
Ultima modifica di Mirage-IV su 16/03/2011, 15:19, modificato 1 volte in totale.
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 07/03/2011, 22:25 |
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Speriamo! Basta che non facciano la fine dei 101 presidenziali...
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Mirage-IV
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 08/03/2011, 20:46 |
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Un dubbio amletico ...... ma anche una domanda ... Perchè l'Air Force vuole evitare una competizione nel programma CVLSP (Common Vertical Lift Support Program )? Cita: Fonte: Ares A Defense Technology Blog (AW&ST) To Compete or Not to Compete, That's the CVLSP QuestionPosted by Graham Warwick at 3/8/2011 10:38 AM CST Heli-Expo, held in Orlando from 5-8 March, is a commercial-helicopter show, but the elephant in the exhibition hall - at least for the European manufacturers - is the looming decision by the US Air Force on its acquisition strategy for the Common Vertical Lift Support Program (CVLSP).
CVLSP is intended to be the procurement of up to 205 off-the-shelf helicopters to replace Bell UH-1Ns used for ICBM-field security and executive transport. The big question is whether "off-the-shelf" will end up as the sole-source procurement of HH-60Ms through the US Army's existing Black Hawk contract with Sikorsky - a mechanism the Air Force is using already to buy small numbers of HH-60Ms to replace losses in its HH-60G combat search-and-rescue (CSAR) fleet.
Predictably, AgustaWestland and Eurocopter are pushing back hard against the idea of going sole-source - and not just for CVLSP. Also up in the air is how the Air Force plans will recapitalize its HH-60G fleet following the collapse of the 146-aircraft CSAR-X progam. The idea of sole-source procument of HH-60Ms is being floated there too. Photo: AgustaWestland AgustaWestland is making the most noise, using its own money to build and fly a demonstrator for the AW139M helicopter it would offer for CVLSP. The militarized version of its commercial AW139 medium twin was displayed at the Air Force Association conference last month and at the Heli-Expo convention this week. AgustaWestland plans to bid for CVLSP as prime contractor, noting it already assembles the AW139 in Philadelphia.
AgustaWestland also plans to bid for any CSAR contract as prime, offering the heavier AW101. This would be entirely seperate from its deal with Boeing to offer the AW101 - as the Boeing 101 - for VXX. (The AW101, as the Lockheed Martin VH-71A, having won the last VXX contest.)
The company argues previous Air Force analyses of alternatives showed the UH-60 was not the right helicopter for either CVLSP or CSAR-X. "We will fight the possibility of going sole-source to Sikorsky," says AgustaWestland CEO Guiseppe Orsi. "We believe this has to be competed."
Why the Air Force would want to go sole-source on CVLSP and CSAR when it has just secured aggressive pricing on its KC-X replacement tankers through competition is a baffling. One reason could be the threat that industry protests and Congressional second-guessing would push back already long-delayed programs. Another could be laziness - no-one is going to lose their job for buying Black Hawks.
The question that needs to be answered are whether sole-source would give the Air Force the best helicopter for the job; an adequate helicopter at lower risk; or a less-suitable helicopter at higher cost.
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 11/03/2011, 14:57 |
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Mirage, ma alla fine chi la spunterà? 
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Mirage-IV
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 14/03/2011, 8:58 |
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rombodituono30 ha scritto: Mirage, ma alla fine chi la spunterà? Difficile dirlo, allo stato attuale. Come avrai potuto constatare dalla lettura dell'ultimo articolo che ho postato (e che è di origine statunitense) c'è troppa carne al fuoco, e AW ci sta aggiungendo di suo con l'intenzione di presentarsi come "prime contractor" anche nel programma CSAR-X in concorrenza con Boeing che, in virtù di un accordo risalente allo scorso anno, concorre con lo stesso tipo di elicottero (AW101). Se poi aggiungi ai fattori tecnici anche quelli politici, le lobbies, gli appetiti dei potentati locali, i desideri dei generali dell'Air Force nonchè un'evidente tendenza protezionistica al "buy American" ... tutto porterebbe a pensare che per AW non ci siano grandi possibilità di spuntarla, anche se, come si suole dire, "la speranza è sempre l'ultima a morire" ... 
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 16/03/2011, 15:38 |
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Contrordine compagni ...Cita: "I expect we will go towards a competitive strategy"
Così ha affermato il Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford, sconfessando in pratica il collega Lt. Gen. Jim Kowalski, che sosteneva che gli elicotteri dovessero essere acquistati presso un unico fornitore ... Sikorsky ... Cita: DATE: 16/03/11 SOURCE: Flight International USAF overrules top general on competition for new helicopter By Stephen Trimble The US Air Force's acquisition leaders are likely to consider three or four different helicopters for a new contract, overruling a senior commander who strongly pushed for a sole-source contract for a new version of the Sikorsky UH-60.
"I expect we will go towards a competitive strategy," Lt Gen Mark Shackelford, military deputy to the assistant secretary of the air force for acquisition, told a House Armed Services Committee hearing on 15 March.
A competition would allow at least "three or four vendors" that meet the air force's requirement to submit proposals for the common vertical lift support programme (CVLSP). © Staff Sgt Aaron Allmon/USAF Sikorsky has offered to meet both the CSAR-X and CVLSP fleet requirements with a single helicopter - the HH-60M. The CVLSP requirement has been listed for 93 aircraft, but air force officials recently suggested the number could eventually be 205. The latter number appears to include a related requirement for 112 combat search and rescue helicopters (CSAR-X).
Sikorsky has offered to meet both the CSAR-X and CVLSP fleet requirements with a single helicopter - the HH-60M.
That strategy has been embraced by Lt Gen Jim Kowalski, chief of Global Strike Command, which is responsible for operating the CVLSP fleet. Kowalski said last month that awarding a sole-source deal would accelerate the acquisition process.
For Kowalski, speed of acquisition is one of the key requirements for the CVLSP procurement. The Bell Helicopter UH-1s currently flying the missions, which involve patrolling remote missile fields and ferrying VIPs in Washington DC, have been inadequate for their mission since 1996, he says.
Kowalski last month said the acquisition strategy for CVLSP would be decided during a meeting in March with David Van Buren, the air force's assistant secretary of acquisition, and Shackelford's boss.
It is not clear if the meeting has taken place, but Shackelford's statement indicates the decision on the CVLSP acquisition strategy has already been made.
Although Shackelford says there are three or four vendors that meet the USAF's requirement, at least five companies have expressed interest in the CVLSP programme.
Beyond Sikorsky, the most outspoken advocate for a competition has been AgustaWestland, which has rigged up an AW139M to compete for the contract.
Bell and Boeing have also distributed marketing materials showing their respective UH-1Y Super Huey and HH-47 Chinook products as alternatives for CVLSP, while EADS North America officials have proposed Eurocopter's Super Puma.
The selected helicopter will have to perform a unique mission. As part of its requirement to secure remote missile fields, the aircraft must take off with a fully loaded nine-person response team and four crew members.La partità è quindi ancora aperta ...
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 02/06/2011, 16:06 |
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Qualcosa si muove ...Cita: On 27 May, the USAF finally launched a competitive bidding process for 93 helicopters, releasing a draft request for proposals under the common vertical lift support platform (CVLSP) programme.
.... ma non è ancora perfettamento chiaro a quale categoria apparterà la macchina che verrà acquistata .... si spazia infatti da versioni aggiornate dello "Huey" a bestioni quali il "Chinook" passando, eventualmente, per lo AW101 .... Cita: DATE: 02/06/11 SOURCE: Flight International USAF powers up for long-awaited UH-1N replacement By Stephen Trimble When three nuclear protestors broke into the E-9 Minuteman launch site in rural North Dakota on 20 June 2006, alarm bells rang all over the US Air Force.
Terrorists may have tried harder to gain access to the missile silo. But these trespassers were dressed as clowns, and merely spray-painted slogans around the site. Finished with their work, they waited patiently inside the launch site with hands raised until a helicopter-borne USAF security force arrived to arrest them.
Within the air force, however, the incident underscored the need to replace an ageing, under-powered fleet of 62 Bell UH-1Ns charged with responding to such alarms across vast distances.
The USAF's unguarded, remote missile sites dotting the Great Plains have always been vulnerable to potentially catastrophic security breaches, and the trio of harmless clowns only seemed to mock that risk. © US Air Force (E-9 Minuteman nuclear launch silo, North Dakota) A more high-profile security lapse in 2007, when a Boeing B-52 inadvertently transported six nuclear-tipped missiles across the country, drove sweeping reforms of the USAF nuclear enterprise. But it has taken five more years and a controversy over acquisition strategy to address the UH-1N replacement issue.
On 27 May, the USAF finally launched a competitive bidding process for 93 helicopters, releasing a draft request for proposals under the common vertical lift support platform (CVLSP) programme.
Recognising the scale of the need if not the urgency, the USAF's draft requirements call for a very different kind of helicopter than the 4,700kg (10,400lb)-class UH-1N.
For the most challenging profile - responding to a security breach at a missile launch site - the aircraft with four crew members must transport a nine-member security force with all of their weapons and other equipment a minimum of 210km (115nm) and back, with multiple stops en route.
The five most likely helicopters competing for the CVLSP contract are at least 50% larger than the UH-1N, ranging from the 6,800kg AgustaWestland AW139 to the 22,700kg Boeing HH-47. Falling in between are the Bell UH-1Y, Sikorsky UH-60M and the Eurocopter EC725 offered by EADS North America.
The USAF's demands for increased performance may yet force some competitors to switch to an even larger aircraft.
"We don't see any requirement that we don't meet with a government off-the-shelf UH-60M aircraft," said Tim Healy, Sikorsky's director of air force business development. But he added: "It isn't a cakewalk, but we do meet all the requirements we see so far." © US Air Force Until now, the USAF has released only the aircraft requirements, but not the acquisition strategy. Until it divulges how the requirements will be scored in an evaluation, most competitors are keeping their options open.
AgustaWestland, Boeing and EADS confirmed interest in competing for the contract, but declined to specify which aircraft could be proposed. AgustaWestland has the option of choosing between the AW139 and larger AW101, while EADS is balancing potential bids based on Eurocopter's EC725 Cougar or AS532 Puma.
Boeing's only option appears to be the HH-47 Chinook, unless it teams with Bell to offer the V-22 tiltrotor. However, the USAF has not expressed any interest in a high-speed aircraft, with its draft requirement documents calling for a minimum speed of 135kt (250km/h). While 30% faster than the UH-1N, this is less than half the top speed of the V-22.
In addition, Bell seems concentrated on offering the UH-1Y for the CVLSP contract, describing the far more powerful and updated version of the Huey airframe as the "best value" in the competition.
The competitors' strategies are likely to take shape after 10 June, when the USAF is expected to reveal the acquisition strategy for CVLSP during a closed-door "industry day" meeting.
The competitive strategy has already survived an attempt within the USAF to at least consider awarding a sole-source deal to the UH-60M. In late March, USAF acquisition officials rejected the sole-source option in favour of a competitive bidding process.
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 28/09/2011, 13:25 |
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E, alla fine, (forse) non se ne farà niente ... Cita: USAF helictoper competition postponed again, faces new budget review
Stephen Trimble - Washington DC (26 minutes ago)
Source: Flight International
A competition to supply 93 helicopters to the US Air Force may be the first publicly known victim of sweeping budget reviews within the Department of Defense.
At least four companies vying for the common vertical lift support programme (CVLSP) have been expecting the release of a draft request for proposals for several months.
However, a new acquisition notice released by the USAF informs the bidders that the draft RFP is being withheld because of "programmatic and budgetary deliberations".
The notice comes less than a week after Michael Donley, secretary of the air force, publicly warned that "lower-priority programmes" would be dropped because of the DoD's new budget environment.
"It's safe to say that every single line of the budget is under scrutiny," Donley said on 19 September, addressing the annual convention of the Air Force Association.
The CVLSP intends to replace 62 Bell Helicopter UH-1N Iroquois aircraft originally delivered 41 years ago.
The aircraft perform two missions. A portion of the fleet is used to ferry security forces around the far-flung fields of missile silos in the western half of the USA. The other half is based around Washington DC, and is primarily tasked with the mission of rapidly evacuating the government's top leadership, if necessary.
The replacement programme has already been delayed by almost a year because of a dispute over acquisition strategy. The USAF's Global Strike Command favoured awarding a sole-source contract for the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk. But David Van Buren, the USAF's acquisition chief, decided to award a contract only after a competitive bidding process.
Sikorsky has four major competitors for the CVLSP contract. AgustaWestland has aggressively marketed the AW139M, with a representative aircraft already modified to perform the mission. Bell is offering the UH-1Y Venom. EADS North America is considering offering the Eurocopter EC725 Super Cougar or the NH Industries NH90.
The budget reviews are likely to delay - or even terminate - the start of a competition, but contract award had been scheduled for September 2012. The first operational squadron was scheduled to enter service three years later.
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Oggetto del messaggio: Re: AgustaWestland presenta il modello AW139M ... Inviato: 19/12/2011, 20:31 |
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è ancora tutto in ballo,purtroppo l'unico problema di questa commessa è un senatore dello stato in cui Sikorsky ha le sedi e stà facendo di tutto per far acquistare al governo usa gli elicotteri di casa, stessa cosa è accaduta per i Vh-71 (eh 101) presidenziali,Agusta in quel caso ha mantenuto i patti,sono stati gli Usa che hanno chiesto delle modifiche dal progetto iniziale della macchina,ovviamente Agusta gli ha fatto presente che tale richiesta avrebbe portato un'aumento del prezzo della macchina e da lì è successo il "casino", Obama si è fatto spingere da questo senatore per portare avanti il discorso di far lavorare la propia nazione (che è una cosa giusta) ma attualmente ne Sikorsky ne Bell hanno macchine rivali del 139; solo Eurocopter ha presentato il 175 potenziale rivale del 139,in poche parole una brutta copia del 139 in versione E.C. Agusta attualmente ha presentato due nuovi prodotti Aw 169 (nuovo erede del 109) ed Aw 189. 
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