Personnel Recovery Vehicle
Abstract
The primary mission of the Combat Search And Rescue Replacement Vehicle (CSAR-X) is to recover downed aircrew and isolated personnel from hostile or denied territory. Rescue forces may also conduct other missions inherent in their capabilities to conduct Personnel Recovery (PR), such as non-conventional assisted recovery, non-combatant evacuation operations, civil search and rescue, international aid, emergency midecal evacuation, disaster/humanitarian relief, and insertion/estraction of combat forces. Budget justification: In the spring of FY09, the Secretary of Defense directed the Air Force to "terminate the CSAR-X program and procure replacement rotary wing aircraft based upon currently fielded CSAR capabilties." In June of 2009 the Air Force terminated the existing CSAR-X contract. Funds in FY 10 will be used to develop and execute an acquisition strategy to procure replacement rotary wing aircraft in production for the Army and modifying them with CSAR mission equipment to replace aircraft lost in combat and operational missions. These aircraft, identified as Operational Loss Replacement (OLR) will procure UH-60 aircraft from the Army and then purchase and integrate modification kits to bring the UH-60M aircraft up to the fielded HH-60G configuration. OLR is an interim step to maintain combat capability. Portions of FY10 funding will also be used to support the HH-60G recapitalization program with any follow on studies and analysis, the development of an acquisition strategy and to support subsequent acquisition activities. FY10 will be the last year of RDT&E funding in this PE and BPAC. This program was in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it had passed Milestone B approval and was conduction engineering and manufacturing development tasks and meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production. Future HH-60G recapitalization RDT&E activities will be tracked in PE0605229.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 655213_0605277F_5_3600_PB_2012
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