ChandlerMay, a supplier of C2 System development, ground control stations and mobile C2 computing solutions, has been recognized by AAI Corporation for its continued contribution to the RQ-7B Shadow 200 tactical unmanned aircraft system (TUAS) programme.
The company recently received the “Above and Beyond” award at Textron System’s AAI Corporation in Hunt Valley, MD. It was one of three suppliers (of dozens) to receive the award and special recognition for their excellent performance providing major Ground Control Station (GCS) subsystems to the Shadow programme last year.
ChandlerMay’s Director of Command and Control Programmes, Steve Adlich, gladly accepted the plaque of recognition at the 2011 AAI Suppliers Conference. “It was quite an honour,” said Steve. “AAI has built a highly reliable and extremely successful Unmanned Air System for the Warfighter. We are very proud of our 10-year partnership with AAI, and to do our part for the soldiers in theater.”
The company builds GCS’s for multiple UAS systems on multiple programmes, including AAI’s Shadow, General Atomics’ Gray Eagle, and the AME Unmanned Air System’s Fury UAS. The Shadow and Grey Eagle GCS (previously designated the Army “One System” GCS, and now being upgraded to the “Universal Ground Control Station”) undergo final integration and test at AAI’s facility in Hunt Valley, MD.
ChandlerMay has been partnered with AAI Corporation since 2001 on the TUAS programme. It continues to provide not only the vehicle-mounted ground control stations but also portable ground control stations (PGCS) that allow for quick set-up and remote operation of the UAS. It also provides maintenance, RESET, and Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) for the ground control stations.
The RQ-7B Shadow TUAS is a workhorse platform, having recently achieved in excess of 600,000 total flight hours, and has been widely used in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan as an intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance asset by the U.S. Army.
Source: Press Release