Author: Vincent C. Stamper Company: Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility PacNorWest Phone: (360) 340-2781 Email: vincent.c.stamper1@navy.mil The use of industrial processes in and around sensitive systems and equipment aboard naval assets pose risk. To mitigate this risk, restrictions on the use of these processes are in place, based on the best testing methods available at the […]

Author: CDR Walter W. Kulzy Company: NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Phone: (717) 605-4873 Email: walter.kulzy@navy.mil Investing in the right material at the right time to support fleet requirements, both planned and unplanned, is the primary responsibility of the Navy’s Program Support Inventory Control Point (PSICP), Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS). WSS […]

Author: Robert J. Gordon Company: NAVSUP WSS Philadelphia Phone: (215) 847-9111 Email: robert.j.gordon3@navy.mil Navy & Marine Corps Aviation must increase the flight line Mission Capable numbers. To achieve and sustain there must be an improvement to all aspects of our logistics and maintenance system. Challenges include reducing lead-times on contract awards and repair turnaround time […]

Title: One for One Replacement of Main and Sub Components Author: James Peterson Company: Lockheed Martin Phone: (972) 603-0394 Email: james.j.peterson@lmco.com Department of Defense (DoD) maintenance facilities typically have three main constraints: Schedule, Budget and Parts Availability, which by nature, have a negative domino effect to production. The first constraint is Parts Availability. In the […]

Author: Mil Ovan Company: Navitas Systems Email: movan@navitassys.com PROBLEM STATEMENT The Department of Defense owns and operates large fleets forklift trucks for material handling purposes. Many of these forklift trucks are electric, powered by very large lead acid batteries. While sufficient for low intensity warehouse applications, the 100+ year old lead acid chemistry has inherent […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

Author: Brent VanDerMeide Author email: brent.vandermeide@us.af.mil Author phone: 801-989-6360 Company: USAF The PRC2 team’s most recent success has been taking an organic team that was entrenched in following an out-of-date process known as waterfall software development and embracing an effective method known as Agile which is similar to many leading industry practices. These rapid releases […]