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…
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…
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE COMMANDER OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND "Asset visibility is the cornerstone of effective end-to-end delivery. We are working to enhance such visibility. Indeed, we are standing up a new fusion center, which will allow us to have real-time visibility on assets and to make better decisions that…
AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM GOUDREAU "There is no doubt that asset visibility and supply chain visibility are an important component of controlling bubbles in the supply chain."
AN INTERVIEW WITH JIM STROCK In a general sense, the capabilities that we need in the sea base are the ability to conduct at-sea transfer of personnel, equipment, and supplies between large vessels and maneuver those capabilities ashore via all forms of surface craft. The last time we talked, we…
AN INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN MIHELIC AND LCDR LEARY "If you look at the 10 elements of logistics, training is an essential piece. I think we’re doing a better job of documenting the actual requirements and the benefits of training and incorporating that into the budget cycle. It’s easy to buy…
