TRC Earns Airworthiness Release for Flight Control Panel Modification Kit

For Immediate Release
Date: 16 October 2007

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

Haines City, FL Technology Research Consultants, Inc. (TRC) has earned an Airworthiness Release (AWR) for the Flight Control Panel Modification Kit by the U.S. Department of the Army Airworthiness and Engineering Directorate in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The integration of the Flight Control Panel Modification Kit into the U.S. Army's fleet of UH-60A/L and HH-60 A/L Blackhawk Helicopters dramatically increases the reliability and enhances the overall safety compatibility of the Blackhawk helicopter.

"TRC's ability to receive the Airworthiness Release for the Flight Control Panel Modification Kit exhibits and further substantiates our commitment to our Nation's Warfighters. Furthermore, this certification demonstrates the talents of our knowledgeable, exceptional, and committed engineers. We continue to prove our capabilities by providing superior technology for critically required modernization, Technology insertion and Obsolescence mitigation solutions that will aid and empower our nation's men and women in uniform." said January Dennison, CEO and President of TRC.

Extensive first article testing included environmental, vibration, electromagnetic interference and flight tests on UH-60L, UH 60HH and UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters. Qualification and testing involved the collaboration of the following agencies: TRC, 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); AMCOM Airworthiness Engineering Directorate (AED); Tobyhanna Army Depot; Lakehurst Naval Air-Base, and Air Training Test Center (ATTC) throughout the final phase of the critical qualification. Key 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 U.S. 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.