In meetings during our visit to TRANSCOM spring, TRANSCOM officials explained how they addressed the Haiti mission.... the nature of an aid effort to an earthquake ravaged country like Haiti was fluid with requirements in flux. And highlighted throughout the interview were the multiple military aid assets, which were being…
During our visit to Transcom in March, General McNabb provided a detailed overview on the challenges in supporting the deployed warfighter in Afghanistan, including supporting the surge ordered by the President. Although the General did not put it this way, it was apparent that the con-ops approach of Transcom is…
In excerpts from the Air Force Association White Paper first published in September 2009, the Impact of the USAF tanker on US global concepts of operations is discussed.
By Lieutenant General George J. Trautman, III Affordability is the balance of cost and capabilities required to accomplish assigned missions. For over a decade the Marine Corps has avoided the cost of new procurement during a time when the service life of our legacy aircraft were sufficient to meet the…
Interview with Gunnery Sergeant Thomas, Pax River "A big change is how we do our maintenance day. On traditional aircraft we have a maintenance checklist and we do a set of tasks each day. Now the day is defined by what the aircraft tells us it needs to have repaired.…
An Interview With Kimberly Gavaletz "For the F-35, the maintenance approach has been a consideration since the inception of the aircraft. F-35 is an Air System. The Air System contains both the aircraft and the sustainment solution. The aircraft was designed to be highly reliable and easy to maintain, requiring…
Abstract of a Brief By Airbus Military Richard Thompson "We are moving into helping our customers with urgent operational requirements, modifications, upgrades, role changes of aircraft once they are in service (...) and what we called our FISS, which is the Full In-Service Support concept, which is effectively a performance-based…
BY RICHARD WEITZ Although the debate continues over the origins and consequences of the regime change in Kyrgyzstan, attention in Washington, for better or worse, is fixated on whether the new Kyrgyz government will continue the U.S. lease to the air base at Manas international airport. The Pentagon considers the…
