The UH-60M Black Hawk modernization program was established to meet the new requirements for supporting the US Army's Future Force. This includes increased lift, range, reliability, maintainability, survivability, and digitized capability for the future battlefield. The UH-60M crew station and avionics imporvements represent the most significant changes in the Black Hawk configuration. The modernization program has already produced a fully digital "glass" crew station that is designed to enhance tactical and flight situation awareness and decreased pilot workload. The heart of htis follow-on program is the move to the Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) and fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control system. The CAAS configuration includes four portrait-style MFDs, a flight director control panel (FDCP), two control display units (CDU), and two data concentrators. This paper will detail the design and evaluation of the new UH-60M Upgrade crew station during the System Development and Demonstration phase of acquisition.

This paper is located in the AHS International 63rd Annual Forum (TL716 .A1 A512 2007 VOL. 1).