Army Military Airworthiness Certification Criteria (AMACC)

 Exactly what you think!

"The Army Military Airworthiness Certification Criteria (AMACC) developed by the U.S. Army Development Command Aviation& Missile Center (DEVCOM AvMC) is the guiding document for Airworthiness (AW) Qualification for Army aviation."

Signed off by no less than David B. Cripps & Fred Banks!   762 pages and they still can't get it right.  What a joke!

Army Military Airworthiness Certification Criteria (AMACC)

Spoiler.... the document uses the word "will" 280 times.   "Will" means it is not required.   It's a trick used by the government.  Will is not contractually binding but shall is... it's interesting to see where they use the word will and in regard to who will (doesn't have to).

It is quite clear that the AMACC does not require all the required documentation necessary for certification of the GE T901 engine control being developed by the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) to DO-178 therefore the T901 engine SHALL not be compliant with DO-178 which took me about 10 minutes to figure out.  Something I stated and was officially documented by the ARMY who wrote a AWIS on the T701 engine.   The Army does not require or purchase the documentation necessary and required for certifying to DO-178.  Pure and simple.  The Army can not say this is fabricated. 

The T701 engine control (Black Hawk and Apache) is not compliant which I oversaw for 8 years and a glance at the Army documentation for the T901 engine reveals that the T901 engine shall not be compliant either but hey the first ARMY document I posted on the blog states... the Army does not meet DO-178 software requirements!

Even though they put on a HUGE 762 page show that the T901 engine shall meet DO-178. 

THE ARMY DOES NOT MEET DO-178!

Same old story.....nothing new.

I wanted to continue working airworthiness but I wasn't allow.  Phil Howard saw to that but glad to be able help.  They need all the help they can get...   Led by the incompetent!

All other commercial platforms are required by law to meet DO-178!  Boeing + Airbus + Lockheed Martin etc etc but not the military!  Who chooses not to.  

They can't even get the engine right.  What about the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) system software OMG!

Even when we put in all the required documentation the Program Management (PM) wouldn't buy it.  So it's not necessarily all the engineers fault.  It's an Army fault!  An Air Force Fault! A Navy Fault!

I know the Navy is guilty too because the Army buy's the T701 engines for them too.    

SUPER IMPORTANT POINT - Even if they state requirements that doesn't mean that the Army will actually buy the data necessary for true certification.  What happen to me was you put in the requirements but then they don't put the DD1423s for the data on the contract.  Program Management didn't buy the data.   They would say do it without it.  I said can't be done.  Disapproved.   I was removed.  Much easier & cheaper than buying the data!