US Army backs off jets for Aerial Common Sensor

The scene: Boeing media tour stop on May 15 in Seattle. Paul Summers, EPX program manager, briefs reporters about EPX, but slips in a bit of unexpected news about a related program -- Aerial Common Sensor.

SUMMERS: ... The army recently announced on ACS they made a decision to go with a twin turboprop. That's been released in the public domain now.

ME: Um, really? 

SUMMERS: Yes, It happened last week. By virtue of that evolution, the army seems to be going towards a smaller platform.

After making follow-up calls with several industry sources, the picture is a bit more complicated than stated above, but the evidence is very strong that the army has dropped jet-powered aircraft from the Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) strategy.

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