Air Mobility Command Improving Aircraft Maintenance Recovery Team Processes

摘要

The US government places tremendous significance on global engagement. Whether it's military action to deter aggression, humanitarian assistance to troubled areas, or supplying US embassies and other deployed personnel around the world, rapid and agile mobility plays a key role in meeting America's security objectives. That means strategic airlift, now and for the foreseeable future, provides critical capabilities vital to our national interests. It is, therefore, incumbent upon the Air Force and specifically Air Mobility Command to work toward minimizing the amount of time our C-5s and C-17s remain broken within the system as they carry out their global airlift mission. This effort begins with the TACC and its logistics control function, the XOCL. Unfortunately, while the current MRT process ensures airlifters broken away from home station are eventually repaired and put back into service (and arguably does so effectively), there is little evidence that much is done outside the normal manpower and parts placement systems to systematically analyze and improve the overall MRT process. As noted earlier in this article, this is not to say that AMC does not make efforts to improve real-time on a case-by-case basis; rather, it suggests that in order to more effectively minimize strategic airlifter downtime, the command must implement analytical procedures specific to the MRT process itself, beginning with the XOCL's sizing, sourcing, and tasking subprocesses. The current mechanism for reviewing and assessing historical data, the GDSS 2 database, as currently configured and utilized, is largely ineffective at meeting the analytical need.