EADS North America skeds media event

EADS North America’s CEO Sean O’Keefe will reveal results of the firm’s voluntary flight demonstration for the U.S. Army’s Armed Aerial Scout program at an 8 a.m. (CT) event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., prior to the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting. Earlier this month, EADS North America completed a series of high-altitude demonstrations with a pair of helicopters to showcase its AAS-72X+ rotary craft. The AAS-72X+, an armed off-shoot of the Army’s UH-72A Lakota helicopter, is to be built at the firm’s American Eurocopter facilities in Columbus, Miss. Source: Defence Professionals, Oct. 16, 2012.