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Accession Number:
ADA173696
Title:
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on LHX Requirements
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Corporate Author:
DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC
Report Date:
1986-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
54.0
Abstract:
This is the final report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on LHX Requirements. This Task Force was established last December at the request of the Under Secretary of Defense RE to attempt to apply the findings and recommendations of the 1985 DSB Summer Study panel on military requirements to an important new program before this program reached the full-scale development stage. The Task Force was also charged with reviewing the requirement for the LHX itself. This DSB Task Force was formed at the request of the Under Secretary of Defense RE in December 1985 to assess the Armys current effort to replace some of its aging fleet of lighter helicopters in several classes scout, attack, and utility with a single new helicopter the LHX. The assessment was to include not only the process by which the Armys official requirement for the LHX was arrived at but also the specific requirement itself. The Task Force has examined the current state of the requirements for the LHX and has concluded that the program is following almost exactly the DoD Problem Program process described in the 1985 DSB Summer Study Report. Therefore, while the Task Force has little doubt about the Armys very real need to upgrade its light helicopter fleet, it does have deep concerns about the future of this program as now being pursued.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
