Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force A Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Speed in acquisition also tends to work against organic sustainment. 2 Lt Gen Fedder concluded by listing some initiatives to enhance sustainment cost management: 1 Lt Gen Judith Fedder, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters, U.S.
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Accessed January 15, 2013. 3 Lt Gen Judith Fedder, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters U.S.
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Katherine Stevens, Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate and Capability Lead for Agile Combat Support, Air Force Research Laboratory Katherine Stevens, Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate and Capability Lead for Agile Combat Support, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) , gave an overview of the AFRL's role in science and technology (S&T)
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In response to a question about whether there is duplication of effort between AFRL engineers and life-cycle engineers in the program offices, one participant felt that a bigger issue was retaining good life-cycle engineers in the program offices because they can receive higher 5 Katherine Stevens, Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate and Capability Lead for Agile Combat Support, Air Force Research Laboratory, "USAF Science and Technology for Sustainment," presentation to the workshop on December 4, 2012.
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Steven Brown, Professor, Defense Acquisition University Steven Brown, a professor at Defense Acquisition University and a former Air Force crash investigator, began by observing that flight safety is a passion in the Air Force. In his view, the Air Force could solve its sustainment problems if it had the same passion.
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This enterprise approach to sustainment contracting is estimated to save about 20 percent on costs. On the training issue, DoD is estimated to have nearly 17,000 life-cycle logisticians -- some in the program offices, some in the supply chain, and some at the three Air Logistics 11
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Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet These Needs, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2011. 9 James Yankel, Technical Director, Directorate of Logistics, Air Force Materiel Command, "Sustaining Aging Aircraft," presentation to the workshop on December 4, 2012.
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She answered that Lt Gen Litchfield 10 Joan Berrett, Director, Aerospace Sustainment Directorate, Air Force Sustainment Center, "Driving to Cost Effective Readiness," presentation to the workshop on December 4, 2012.
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11 Mike Jennings, Deputy Director of Logistics (Acting) , Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, "Product Support Responsibilities and Cost Reduction Initiatives," presentation to the workshop on December 4, 2012.
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He noted that the fundamental challenge is to define an Air Force life-cycle cost model that will be used to plan and track costs. To be truly useful, it must be tied to budgets.
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12 Maj Mark Blumke, Deputy Chief, Mx Systems and Integration Branch, Directorate of Logistics, Air Mobility Command, "AMC Initiatives to Reduce Maintenance and Sustainment Cost Drivers," presentation to the workshop on December 5, 2012. 13 Logistics Management Institute, 2010, Impact of Corrosion on Cost and Availability to DoD.
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He described several initiatives that have saved manhours and sustainment costs, including validating fleet requirements and rightsizing, utilizing a standard algorithm for budget forecasting, and introducing fleet health metric with an algorithm to measure the health and effective ages of the 97,000-vehicle fleet. The Vehicle and Equipment Management Support Office (VEMSO)
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Centralized asset management just orchestrates the process program by program, but the Air Force is missing opportunities unless the Air Force looks across the board and implements changes broadly. Lt Col Godfrey offered that the core function lead integrator (CFLI)
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It was found, for example, that by mining data of people googling "cold and flu," this was the best predictor of where flu vaccines should be sent. BG Edward Dorman III, Director for Logistics Operations, Readiness, Force Integration and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4 BG Edward Dorman III, Director for Logistics Operations, Readiness, Force Integration and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G-4, addressed two topics: (1)
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Raymond Valeika, Retired Senior Vice President for Technical Operations, Delta Airlines Raymond Valeika, Retired Senior Vice President for Technical Operations, Delta Airlines, drew lessons from his management experience in the commercial airline industry for the Air Force. He explained that effective sustainment depends on transparent information, based on the following: Manufacturers' data.
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In this observer's view, this is a big opportunity. Mark Buongiorno, Director, Military Engine Aftermarket Business Development, Pratt and Whitney Mark Buongiorno, Director, Military Engine Aftermarket Business Development, Pratt and Whitney (P&W)
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, Senior Director, Mission Assurance Business Execution, Raytheon Company, recounted a situation in naval aviation in the 1999-2001 period in which aviation depot-level repairable (AVDLR) costs were rising by double digits each year, and spare aircraft were being cannibalized to support deployed aircraft.
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. The metric adopted was "aviation units ready for tasking based on missions completed." This overall metric has a number of supporting metrics involving inventory, reliability, cycle time reduction, and total cost (all dollars/all financial stovepipes)
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