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Appendix D: Presentation Abstracts
Appendix D: Presentation Abstracts
Pages 38-44
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executes approximately $2 billion per year on science and technology efforts for the Air Force. A portion of these funds is directed towards sustainment, with an emphasis on keeping the current fleet safe, improving aircraft availability rates, reducing life-cycle costs (LCC)
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Speaker: Steve Brown, C.P.L., Defense Acquisition University Presentation Title: Institutionalizing Low Sustainment Aircraft During his presentation titled "Institutionalizing Low Sustainment Aircraft," Professor Steve Brown discussed five issues critical to successfully reducing sustainment of military air vehicles with the Air Force Studies Board at the National Academy of Sciences on December 4, 2012.
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Recommendations from the Life Cycle Management Working Group (LCM WG) and AFLCMC objective efforts can ensure enterprise visibility for the AFLCMC commander to exercise an influential role in product support activities across AFLCMC, as well as integrating product support management with the product support integrators and product support providers.
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As initiatives progress, AFLCMC has the potential to ensure program office decisions are in-line with the Air Force enterprise product support strategy. Speaker: Maj Mark Blumke, Deputy Chief, Mx Systems and Integration Branch, Directorate of Logistics, Air Mobility Command Presentation Title: Air Mobility Command Initiatives to Reduce Maintenance and Sustainment Cost Drivers No abstract submitted.
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In addition, the ability to troubleshoot wiring and intermittent line replaceable unit faults with a test unit common across multiple airframes with more accuracy could greatly reduce sustainment costs. Finally, ACC would like to leverage state-of-the-art information technology tools, such as electronic tablets with mobile apps, to allow maintainers to reference tech data, conduct remote troubleshooting, order parts, close out work orders, etc., from the aircraft.
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Through IPD, P&W focuses on reducing the life-cycle cost of the propulsion system from product development, through production and into sustainment. P&W has demonstrated success in design for reliability/maintainability, production cost target achievement, and integrated sustainment solutions that not only reduce depot maintenance cost but also focus on reducing maintenance through increased time on wing, optimized operations and sustainment integration with original equipment manufacturer knowledge.
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If not addressed, this "downward death spiral" would have resulted in a greatly reduced force structure, and warfighting capability would have been compromised. Across the years 1999-2007, naval aviation created a different business model which valued cost wise readiness and developed the concept of single process ownership and the single fleet driven metric to establish a horizontal behavior model that valued aviation units ready for tasking at reduced cost -- today, tomorrow, and in the future.
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