In a recent interview, Lou Kratz, Vice President, Logistics and Sustainment, Lockheed Martin Corporation, laid out an approach towards shaping a new convenant between industry and government in forging a success-based sustainment model. Today, logistics and sustainment are "central to our future in working with our customers", he stresses.
On 17 November 2009, the European Defence Agency’s Ministerial Steering Board noted a Letter of Intent (LOI) on the establishment of a European Air Transport Fleet (EATF). EDA's Former Deputy Chief Executive Dr. Himar Linnenkamp, analyses the status of such initiative balancing the good and the bad news...
A Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) approach is in effect being implemented in France, whereby the industry is now welcome to offer customized approaches and solutions to a variety of maintenance and support challenges (...)The Army Chief of Staff (EMAT) is still refining its approach as far as the degree of outsourcing/partnership…
This question is significant because, almost at the level of legend, many analysts and policymakers today are suggesting that the MRAP acquisition experience be applied in developing acquisition reforms, especially in rapid acquisition cases...
The Cognac-Châteaubernard French Air Force base was at first a military airfield created in 1938 (...). Besides its historic legacy, what makes BA709 unusual though is the integration in the past three years of a customized EADS subsidiary, called ECATS for “EADS Cognac Aviation Services”...
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece on the new Chrysler and its struggle to build new cars, the authors underscored a core challenge facing the new Chrysler management. (...) They just don’t have the suppliers lined up...
Nine NATO Allies have just signed a declaration of intent to contribute to the Czech-lead initiative to develop a multi-national transport helicopter programme for NATO...
Rotorcraft are significant contributors to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. They provide combat support, logistical lift, troop transport, medivac, and integrated C4ISR for the battlefield. In a recent summary briefing of a study on rotorcraft survivability, the Institute for Defense Analysis provided some insight into the types of investments…
