2015-03-17 By Robbin Laird The introduction of new sensors into the supply chain has provided a solid basis for starting to think differently about how to manage the supply chain and the entire logistics custodial system. As Secretary Wynne underscored in his interview on the start of an industry, the…
2015-03-04 By Robbin Laird The F-35 program has been built around a very different manufacturing model for fighter jets, more modeled on what an Airbus would do than the more traditional station build approach. The F-35 is to be built on three final assembly lines (FALs)– Fort Worth, Cameri, and…
2015-03-06 Recently an Atlas A400M of the French Air Force flew to the United Arab Emirates to deliver cargo to the French military. According, to the FAF: The A400M demonstrates a bit more each day its extraordinary capacity for projection. It can fulfill this type of mission without stoping…
2015-03-06 On March 2, 2015, the A400M Atlas touched down in French Polynesia. Currently, the French forces use two CN-235s to provide the means to link up with the five Polynesian archipelagos. There is a French Air Force detachment of 190 at Tahiti's Faa'a airfield. The flight from New Caledonia…
2015-03-01 When the F-35 is discussed, subsumed in the discussion is the evolution of defense supply chains. The F-35 is built around global supply chains, and the digital systems by which the aircraft is built is rooted in a triangular relationship among the digital systems used by suppliers, the final…
02/25/2015: United States Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force's maintainers work together during Cope North 2015. Credit: Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs:2/23/15 According to a PACAF story published on 2/19/15: by Staff Sgt. Melissa B. White Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs 2/19/2015 - ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- More than…
2015-02-22 According to a story on the French Air Force website, the Atlas A400M flew to the United Arab Emirates to deliver cargo to the French military. [maxgallery id="74966"] The A400M demonstrates a bit more each day its extraordinary capacity for projection. It can fulfill this type of mission…
2015-02-14 Australia’s Air Task Group (ATG) consisting of six RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornets, an E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft and a KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft continue to support Operation OKRA with missions in Iraq. Nearly 400 personnel have deployed to the Middle East as part, or…
