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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

AAAA Cribbins45th Aviation Product Symposium

Mr. Don CattellVice President, Army Programs

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

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• Provide cost-effective and flexible Performance Based Logistics capability to support the Soldier in the field

• Continue to improve reliability of the system

• Cooperative IR&D investment strategy to develop and field new capabilities that are in concert with operational needs

Readiness While Modernizing the Force

• Must have “ALL-IN” attitude from Executive Leadership to all employees to address Warfighter needs

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F/160E/2

AEB2D/25 FWD D/25 FWD

D/82 D/82AEB1 AEB1 AEB1 AEB1B/15 B/15 B/15 B/15

D/25 D/25 D/25 D/25 D/25 D/25B/224 B/224 B/224 B/224 B/224 B/224 B/224

B/101 B/101 B/101 B/101 B/101 B/101 B/101 B/101B/229 B/229 B/229 B/229 B/229 B/229 B/229 B/229 B/229

D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10 D/10E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160 E/160

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Effective Logistics Support to Warfighter

3 Units5.2k

4 Units20.5k

8 Units78k

10 Units116k

13 Units159k

6 Units41k

15 Units204k

Flight Hour Growth

17 Units299k

19 Units 384k

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PBL17

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Modernization Through Industry Teaming

Increased Endurance: 40% more fuel capacity More Growth Capability: 47% more avionics & 11%+ more payload Improved Maintainability: Increased accessibility to LRUs Enhanced Airworthiness Design: Composite structures improvements

Key Areas of Future Focus• Supervised Automation

Reduce workload and manpower while improving warfighter efficiency and effectiveness

• Survivability Capabilities to operate in Near-Peer, Multi-domain combat

• Expeditionary Reduce operational footprint and enable quick set-up and launch capability

• Block Upgrade Approach to consolidate capabilities in single upgrade to minimize field impact and obtain cost efficiency

Trailing Arm Main Landing Gear

Increased Stiffness

Wing Structural ImprovementsMeets ETW Requirements

Additional Maintainer Access

Improved Navigation Performance2 EGIs, 1 Athena

Lightweight Cabling Indexed Routing

Locations

Fault Tolerant Tails Brushless Smart Servos

10k hr TBO

HFE180 EngineImprovements

Redesigned Engine Cooling System

New Strobe Lights and Beacon

DRHPInstallation Time

Improvement

Improved Engine Bay Access

Individually Packaged Fuel

System Components

Company Funded Development, 6 years

Gray Eagle – Extended RangeImproved mission capability to 14+ hours on station at 1,000 KM

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• Supporting the Warfighter remains our top priority

• Gray Eagle is an effective and proven warfighter asset – GA-ASI invests internal dollars raising readiness and reliability

• GA-ASI envisions and develops innovative capabilities through ECPs, rapidly meeting Warfighter demands such as Gray Eagle ER

• MQ-1C ER will conduct FOTE II in FY 18 and will be fielded to SOCOM and INSCOM units

Summary