Sustainment Strategies For Today’S Fighter Aircraft
- As the Air Systems (aircraft, training systems, support equipment, etc.) get more expensive and fewer in numbers, we must leverage technology to reduce costs of sustainment while we increase the air system readiness
- As we look at 21st Century sustainment, the sustainment tasks are much like the tasks we have done for decades; of course, the sustainment “Center of Gravity” is still the flight line
- To reduce cost while increasing readiness, we have to approach those traditional sustainment tasks with “tools” that are very different
- We need to leverage
- High system reliability to keep parts on the wing longer and reduce manpower. To do that we need to have …
- Enhanced predictive health & analytics to understand where to focus our efforts and to allow for…
- Condition based maintenance where we execute actions to minimize downtime, which is hinged on …
- High-velocity supply system where we have the right part at the right time with a minimal inventory