Army Contract Aircraft Maintenance - Can We Afford It?
Abstract
The Army aviation maintenance community finds itself at a challenging crossroads. In the midst of RMA, RML and transformation, it must seek smart, innovative and cost effective concepts, procedures, and systems that will allow it to remain affordable, compatible and relevant to future aviation and the overall Army. To meet these requirements, we must embrace fundamental changes in our methods of support operations. Deciding how and which changes to embrace become the real challenge for our leaders since these decisions will effect long-term investments. The time is right to actively explore the concept of contracted aviation maintenance support as an integral part of the Army aviation maintenance system. There are no guarantees that contracting will produce overall cost reductions. Without looking and studying, we run the risk of missing opportunities. Leadership must resist the temptation of clinging to current ways and demand the exploration of more cost effective methods for our future. Reductions in infrastructure, redundancy and "overhead", CSS footprints, refinements of the aviation force structure, and realization of a distribution based logistics system can all be satisfied potentially to some degree or another by using contract maintenance instead of the military and civilian force structure currently in place.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 10, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA389772
Entities
People
- Troy L. Lovett
Organizations
- United States Army War College