The DoD procurement account fell by more than 70% during the past decade. The cost associated with rotorcraft design, analysis, testing, training, and support, using current techniques, promises to escalate in the predicted hostile fiscal environment of the 21st century. This cost must be reduced through the use of credible simulation and other analytical options. Conventional multi-service air vehicle flight testing is becoming more expensive and the test results may uncover problems late in the acquisition cycle, where making changes can be both costly and time consuming. Mission rehearsal training is normally conducted on operational flight trainers far removed from the battlefield site. A need exists to conduct joint service air vehicle testing analytically first, and to do mission rehearsal training at deployed sites. A need also exists to help integrate the design and teat phases of the aircraft acquisition cycle and to do 21st century flight testing better, faster, cheaper, and safer. The Joint Enhanced Rotorcraft Test and Operational Capability (JERTOC) concept was formulated as one approach to help realize the generic better/faster/cheaper/safer criteria applied to test and evaluation (T&E), as well as, to help achieve local flight test objectives of reducing (T&E) coat and cycle time. The JERTOC concept involves testing and evaluating advanced technology programs available in the 21th century in aircraft and engine simulation modeling, design, test planning, and teat reporting to better support acquisition, testing and training in an integrated environment. An initial goal of this program concept is to develop the capability to do analytically in one month what might currently take more than a year of actual air vehicle flight testing. A final goal includes using the capability of a high performance computing (HPC) center to analytically run a helicopter air vehicle test program in one 24 hr period.


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    Titel :

    Joint Enhanced Rotorcraft Test and Operational Capability for the 21st Century


    Beteiligte:
    D. Carico (Autor:in) / K. Blemel (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1998


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






    Joint Enhanced Rotorcraft Test and Operational Capability (JERTOC)

    Carico, D. / Slade, C. / Society of Flight Test Engineers | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1999


    Joint Enhanced Rotorcraft Test and Operational Capability (JERTOC) for the 21^s^t Century

    Carico, D. / Blemel, K. / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000