TRC ensures the stabilization of Black Hawk

For Immediate Release
Date: 1 Dec 2006

Contact: Leatrice West, Public Relations Manager 863-419-8860 ext 123

Haines City, FL Technology Research Consultants, Inc. (TRC) has successfully re-engineered, manufactured, qualified and is currently shipping the Flex Circuit Assembly for Integration into the flight essential Stabilator Amplifier (Stab Amp) for the U.S. Army's fleet of Blackhawk Helicopters.

The TRC Flex Circuit Assembly performed flawlessly throughout the extensive First Article, EMI/EMC and Flight testing. TRC's team of dedicated engineers led this pivotal modernization effort implementing a state of the art non kapton flexible technology solution. TRC's Flex Circuit Assembly product yields significant cost savings to the U.S. Government but more so, provides the Warfighter with increased reliability of the Stab Amp flex circuit.

TRC's ability to quickly re-engineer, prototype, qualify and produce flight essential components enables the Department of Defense (DoD) to keep existing equipment fully operational until the next generation of technology is available.

"TRC is committed to providing quality avionic technology equipment to protect, support and sustain the safety of our Warfighters" said January Dennison, CEO and president of TRC.

Extensive first article testing included environmental, vibration, electromagnetic interference and maintenance flight tests on UH-60L, UH 60HH and UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters. Qualification and testing involved the collaboration of the following agencies: US Army Redstone Technical Test Center (RTTC); US Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM); US Army Black Hawk Program Office, US Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (CECOM) and AMCOM Airworthiness Engineering Directorate AED). Tobyhanna Army Depot, Lakehurst Naval Air-Base, and Air Training Test Center ATTC) personnel provided avionic test engineers throughout the final phase of the critical qualification. Vital to the success of this program was the extensive subject matter expertise provided by the Defense Contract Management Agency.

Headquartered in Haines City, Florida, Technology Research Consultants, Inc. provides the Department of Defense with obsolescence mitigation solutions for flight essential avionic and mission critical control systems, adhering to the highest ethical ISO quality and product reliability standards. TRC is a woman-owned, SBA certified 8(a) vendor. and support a unit for the holidays.