Author: Ken Anderson and Nate Johnson Company: Universal Synaptics Phone: (801) 731-8508 Email: ken.anderson@usynaptics.com, nate.johnson@usynaptics.com The Department of Defense (DoD) sustainment & logistics budgets cannot afford to waste a single dollar. The Services are seeking ways to reduce No Fault Found (NFF) and increase Mission Capability by 80% for the F-35, F/A-18, F-16 and F-22. […]
Read More »Author: Paul Matter Company: pH Matter, LLC Phone: (614) 657-4683 Email: info@phmatter.com Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) equipment provides important tools for the Air Force to characterize flaws, cracks, and/or defects in aircraft, thus monitoring potential safety issues. This equipment is typically hand-held, and used by maintenance crew in flight lines and hangars to inspect aircraft. Most […]
Read More »Author: Dr. Bernard Laskowski Company: Analatom, Inc. Phone: (408) 980-9516 Email: bernard.laskowski@analatom.com Annual corrosion related costs for Department of Defense (DoD) facilities, infrastructure, and equipment are $20 billion. Approximately 25% ($5 billion) occurs at depot-level maintenance for Air Force aircraft and missiles. Analatom has aerospace validated monitoring technologies and experience integrated into innovative, platform-wide solutions. […]
Read More »Author: MSgt John A. Kester Company: 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Kadena AB Phone: (315)-634-6347 Email: john.kester@us.af.mil The United States Air Force needs troubleshooting tools that are effective across specialties. Some aircraft are very new, and some may have been worked on by our grandfathers. Maintenance of these airframes spans a broad variety of system types […]
Read More »Author: Greg Moten Company: 412th Maintenance Group USAF (Dept of Defense) Phone: (661) 277-6844 Email: gregory.moten@us.af.mil Automated Unfunded Requirement (UR) System (AURS) The 412 MXG unfunded requirement (UR) development and execution process had a stakeholder satisfaction rating of 2.9 out of the 5.0 goal. The mediocre rating was influence by the lack of efficiency of […]
Read More »Author: Thomas Biamonte Company: Lockheed Martin Phone: 407-356-0061 Email: tom.biamonte@lmco.com Army maintainers may not have the best available troubleshooting information at their fingertips. Evidence shows that Army maintainers have been improvising to get valuable troubleshooting information needed to meet the demands of high flight hours and frequent maintenance activity. In the two-level maintenance environment, the […]
Read More »Author: Capt Ryan Huff Company: USAF Phone: 479-4504 Email: ryan.huff.2@us.af.mil At first glance, organizing and posturing teams to be ready to deploy at a moment’s notice does not sound like the most innovative breakthrough of the 21st century. However, if you are managing limited resources at the world’s busiest maintenance en route squadron, a personnel […]
Read More »Author: Dr. Harold Hess Company: Enduralock Phone: (913) 214-9911 Email: hhess@enduralock.com Permanently locking fasteners that deform the threads are often used in critical applications where loosening of the fasteners is unacceptable. The problem, however, is that for maintenance these fasteners must be drilled out or cut off for removal, and they require specialized tools for […]
Read More »Author: Michael L. George Company: AI Technologies, Inc. Phone: (214) 215-4455 Email: mike@entropy2718.com Problem Statement Identify and eliminate operating wastes such as scrap, rework, excess tooling set-up time and costs hindering maintenance response times and limiting warfighter capabilities, mission readiness and lethality. These wastes are faced everyday across the DoD… in Fleet Readiness Centers (FRCs), […]
Read More »Author: Frank Elliott Company: AGFM / GFM Phone: (817) 909-2444 Email: FEatGFM@aol.com Integrated Inspection and Repair Preparation (IIRP) Components Removed from Aircraft Abstract This is a proposed path to reduce sustainment cost by increasing the availability and reliability of critical structures through replacement of artisan dependent inspection and repair operations with computer-based technology for a […]
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