Helicon Summit East: Free Resource Library

IDGA’s Helicon Summit East Resource Library provides regularly updated Presentations, Speaker Interviews and Articles coordinated with the event. All of the resources below are available to you entirely free of charge. You will be asked to complete a short form for the first download, but after that you will have immediate access to all items.

If you have any comments or suggestions about these resources, or would like to contribute to this library, please email alexa.deaton@idga.org.

Past Presentations

• Naval Aviation Rotorcraft Survival and Human Performance Training
  By, LCDR Sean McCarthy & Mr. Ray Smith of Naval Survival Training Institute
• Initiatives in Future Vertical Lift Technologies
  By, Jim Snider of Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
• Predictive Maintenance of Aging Rotorcraft: Multi-Sensor Condition Monitoring and Data Analysis Techniques
  By, Nicholas Goodman, CBM Research Center, University of South Carolina
• BG Ray Palumbo presents Army Special Operations Aviation
• Capt Steve Schreiber presents US Navy Rotary Wing Update

Podcasts & Interviews

More than ‘Quarterback Duties’: Improving Helicopters for Mission Effectiveness
This interview with Lieutenant Colonel Mark Bliss, USA, Air and Command Tactical Trainer Program Manager, ACTT, highlights various C2 challenges for helicopters in battle based on lessons learned in theater. It also investigates how current budgetary and fiscal constraints are effecting ACTT operations now and in the near future.

Maintaining Safe and Open Sea Lanes of Communications
IDGA’s @DefenseInsider speaks with Captain Douglas Ten Hoopen, Commander, Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing, US Atlantic Fleet.

• Air Combat Electronics with CAPT Ralph Portnoy, USN
  CAPT Ralph Portnoy, Program Manager of PMA 209 the air combat electronics office at NAVAIR, discusses the latest projects involving combat avionics. He details how he sees these next generation aviation systems changing the way fighter aircraft operate and how they could shape future aerial warfare.
• NAVAIR setting the OSA standards
  Gerard Walles at NAVAL Air Systems Command gets technical with Defense IQ, discussing his work as on the V&V (verification and validation) of systems to ensure that open architecture is really what it claims. For IOA to march forward, standardisation at all corners is vital. You can also click here to read the full transcript.
• Military Helicopter with Colonel Keith Robinson
  Colonel Keith Robinson, Project Manager for the US Army's Armed Scout Helicopter, talks to us about the development of the program, the forthcoming results of its analysis of alternatives and the status of the Kiwoa Warrior.
• Senior NATO Allied Air Command leader on air superiority today
  Lt. Gen. Friedrich W. Ploeger, Deputy Commander of NATO’s Allied Air Command, joins Defense IQ for an exclusive look into the progress, lessons and challenges facing joint air power in Europe and afar. He covers a range of issues aside to the role of the Alliance, including the methods used by the Libyan Forces to attempt to subvert NATO’s operations, the rise of unmanned systems and the ongoing need for manned systems, real progress when it comes to reducing collateral, and the effectiveness of modern electronic warfare efforts.
• Apache Attack Helicopter Program with Richard Tyler
  Richard Tyler, Deputy Project Manager for the Apache Helicopter Program, discusses the history of success with the platform and its role in the Army's inventory. He also details the latest developments with the Apache Block 3 Program and advancements and modifications.
• COL Gregory Gonzalez on Military Unmanned Aircraft Systems
  COL Gregory Gonzalez, Project Manager for Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Program Executive Office for Aviation at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, discusses UAS and its future place on the battlefield. He details efforts for manned and unmanned systems to work seamlessly to provide the best situational awareness for our Warfighters deployed at the front.

Videos

• No One Left Behind: MEDEVAC today
  View the recent conference presentation of Colonel Robert D Mitchell, Director of the Medical Evacuation Proponency Aviation and consultant to the US Army Surgeon General, in which he discusses current MEDEVAC operations in OEF/OIF.
• The Evolution of the Family of KA-50/KA-52
  The global Military Helicopter market is booming—in the U.K. the Future Lynx for the British Army and Royal Navy is scheduled to enter service in 2014. In the United States, the UH-72A Light Utility Helicopter has already entered service with the U.S. Army. Many other programs are in development worldwide. Hear from Dr. Sergey Mikheyev, General Designer, Kamov Company
• Army Armed Scout Helicopter Update
  LTC Scott Rauer, Project Manager for the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior at PEO Aviation, discusses the latest with Army armed scout helicopters at IDGA's Helicon 2010. He details new developments with the Kiowa Warrior as well other Army scout helicopters

Articles and Reports

• Military Airlift 2010
• Airborne Electronic Warfare across the Atlantic
  Lt. Col. Anthony Buck is the Commander of the US Air Force’ POLYGONE EW range, part of the Warrior Preparation Centre located near the Ramstein base in Germany. He discusses training in this environment, the simulator dilemma”, the double digital threat with SAMs, and more
• New Technology Allows Helicopter Pilots to Land Safely During Brownout Conditions
  Members of the defense industry were keen to display their response to urgent operational requirements at the MoD showcase of new technology, which took place earlier last month at Armoury House. Defense IQ's Laurent Rathborn was onsite to assess the latest in defense technology, including an innovative helmet display allowing pilots to safely land in "brownout" conditions, when a pilots' visual awareness is impaired by dust or sand.
• Helicopter Training: a Period of Turbulence
  Defense IQ's Calum Jeffray talks to Commander Greenland, Chief Flying Instructor at the Defense Helicopter Flying School, and Lieutenant Commander Neil Parrock, former Detachment Commander of Exercise Merlin Vortex on the current difficulties faced by the helicopter training community

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