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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18295.
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Appendix C

Workshop Participants

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Honorable (Maj Gen [Ret.]) Claude M. Bolton, Jr., Chair

LTG (Ret.) Claude V. Christianson

Thom J. Hodgson (NAE)*

Ronald Mutzelburg

Lyle H. Schwartz (NAE)*

Raymond Valeika

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STAFF

Terry Jaggers, Air Force Studies Board Director

Carter Ford, Program Officer

Greg Eyring, Rapporteur

Sarah Capote, Research Associate

Marguerite Schneider, Administrative Coordinator

SPEAKERS

Joann Berrett, Director, Aerospace Sustainment Directorate, Air Force Sustainment Center

Steven Brown, Professor, Defense Acquisition University

Mark Buongiorno, Director, Military Engine Aftermarket Business Development, Pratt and Whitney

BG Edward Dorman III, Director for Logistics Operations, Readiness, Force Integration and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4

Lt Gen Judith Fedder, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force

Lt Col Brian Godfrey, Chief, Airborne Branch (A4CA), HQ Air Combat Command

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*Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18295.
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Joe Guenther, Vice President and General Manager, Evendale Turbofan and Turbojet Engines, General Electric Aviation

Randy LaMar, Chief of Engine Logistics Program Management, Pratt and Whitney

VADM Walter Massenburg (USN, Ret.), Senior Director, Mission Assurance Business Execution, Raytheon Company

Katherine Stevens, Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

James Yankel, Technical Director, Directorate of Logistics, Air Force Materiel Command

GUESTS

Joseph Baker, Deputy Capability Lead, Agile Combat Support, Air Force Research Laboratory/RX

Maj Michael Dunlavy, Air Force Materials and Manufacturing PEM, U.S. Air Force

David Madden, Division Chief, Product Support Engineering Division, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command

Gary Reese, Director, Strategic Planning, Washington Operations, General Electric Aviation

Col Joe Robinson, Air Force/A4L

Cathy Snyder, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

John Turco, General Electric Aviation

Angie Tymofichuk, Director, Engineering and Technical Management, Air Force Sustainment Center/EN

Marc Whitt, Senior Policy Analyst SAF/AQR

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18295.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18295.
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Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. The cost growth is due partly to aging of the aircraft fleet, and partly to the cost of supporting higher-performance aircraft and new capabilities provided by more complex and sophisticated systems, such as the latest intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms. Furthermore, the expectation for the foreseeable future is that sustainment budgets are likely to decrease, so that the gap between budgets and sustainment needs will likely continue to grow wider. Most observers accept that the Air Force will have to adopt new approaches to WSS if it is going to address this problem and remain capable of carrying out its missions.

In this context, the original intent of this 3-day workshop was to focus on ways that science and technology (S&T) could help the Air Force reduce sustainment costs. However, as the workshop evolved, the discussions focused more and more on Air Force leadership, management authority, and culture as the more critical factors that need to change in order to solve sustainment problems. Many participants felt that while S&T investments could certainly help—particularly if applied in the early stages ("to the left") of the product life cycle—adopting a transformational management approach that defines the user-driven goals of the enterprise, empowers people to achieve them, and holds them accountable, down to the shop level. Several workshop participants urged Air Force leaders to start the process now, even though it will take years to percolate down through the entire organization. These sustainment concerns are not new and have been studied extensively, including recent reports from the National Research Council's Air Force Studies Board and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

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