Wed, Feb 02, 2011
Best PBL Implementation Recognizes Military Partnerships With
Industry
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded its Best Performance
Based Logistics (PBL) award to AAI Corporation's Shadow Tactical
Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) at the 7th Annual Defense Logistics
Awards ceremony. This award was established to "honor, recognize
and promote the logisticians in the U.S. Department of Defense and
the Defense Industry that have made a significant contribution to
military logistics."
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PBL allows the U.S. military to partner with industry to secure
integrated life cycle support for components, sub-systems and
systems, increasing asset readiness and minimizing total cost of
ownership.
"AAI's Shadow TUAS is the most utilized tactical unmanned
aircraft system today having accumulated nearly 590,000 flight
hours to date," says Senior Vice President and General Manager of
AAI Logistics & Technical Services Diane Giuliani. "That record
results from quality design and manufacturing, skilled military
operators, and robust maintenance and logistics support. Our
AAI/Army UAS Project Office team implements and refines best
practices and continuous improvement methodologies to achieve an
exceptionally high average availability rate of 97 percent. In
addition, we've helped our customer maintain or decrease associated
cost of ownership while the fleet size has grown aggressively."
The team's achievements include the rapid fielding of several
system reliability enhancements, including a new parachute that has
reduced aircraft damage during parachute recoveries by 62 percent,
as well as a new oil pump system that eliminated cold-weather oil
flow-related incidents.
In addition, strategies like AAI's successful public/private
partnerships with Letterkenny Army Depot and Tobyhanna Army Depot
set up an efficient supply chain in which AAI's field service
representatives provide an important first line of defense in the
field for Shadow TUAS repairs and maintenance, with depot-level
support for additional infrastructure and labor.
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