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Army

Army Aviation Never Stops Modernizing, PEO Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

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Army aviation’s major modernization plan of 2004 has accomplished most of its goals even as it supported and adapted to conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the Program Executive Official (PEO) says the job is never really done. “You’re never through modernizing, especially in today’s world of obsolescence, where the improvements we’re finding in systems are happening so fast--couple that with how hard we’re flying and the (operational tempo ) optempo we’re working these aircraft in theater,” Maj. Gen. Tim…

Congress

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