Customer Requirement
The Utility Helicopter Project Management Office is developing and qualifying a UH-60V digital cockpit upgrade kit. This kit is intended to upgrade existing UH-60L aircraft to achieve a common Pilot Vehicle Interface (PVI) with the UH-60M aircraft, meet Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) requirements, and address obsolescence issues.
Why Strata-G?
Our design and analysis experience with other rotor wing aircraft such as the Armed Bell 407, OH-58 CASUP, UH-60L/M Customer Border Protection and numerous other projects made the scope of UH-60L conversion to the UH-60V a perfect fit for the Strata-G Engineering Team.
Role of Strata-G
Strata-G is providing engineering to support the Prototype Integration Facility (PIF) and the industry team in the development of a digital avionics suite for the UH-60L. The Strata-G engineering team is comprised of functional experts in System Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, Safety Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. Strata-G has developed the A-Kit designs and the engineering analyses and reports necessary to obtain an airworthiness release. The Strata-G engineering team continues to be an integral part of the installation team, giving guidance to the mechanical and electrical installation technicians and the technical writers producing the installation instructions and MWO documentation. Strata-G electrical and system engineering personnel are also conducting the aircraft Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs).
Solution
Strata-G performed the discrete design tasks in an EVM project environment with Strata-G being a major contributor to the IBR and DCMA audits for EVM certification. The milestones of the aggressive schedule were achieved and even surpassed with the early release of the electrical drawing package resulting in an incentive award. Strata-G has generated a production level drawing package and all necessary analyses and reports to support milestones such as SRR, PDR, CDR, and Prototype installation. Strata-G is one of the first companies supporting US Army Aviation to execute the system safety engineering in accordance with SAE ARP 4761/4754A.
The first Engineering Development Model (EDM) aircraft A-Kit designed by Strata-G has been installed and functionally verified through formal ATPs. First flight occurred on January 19, 2017 which was the date planned in the integrated master schedule two years earlier. EDM #1 is now being tested while the EDM #2 and EDM #3 aircraft are being modified.