Innovative Maintenance Concepts That Improve Weapon System Availability And Reduce Total Ownership Cost

8.00 Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast

8.30 Chairperson’s Opening Address Chairperson’s Opening Address

8.45 KC-46 Sustainment Strategy And Life Cycle Cost Saving Measures Major General Christopher Bogdan, KC-46 Program Executive Officer and Program Director, KC-46 Tanker Modernization Directorate, United States Air Force This presentation will discuss the Acquisition and Sustainment Strategy of the KC-46 Tanker with particular emphasis on various cost saving measures that can be applied for a Commercial- Derivative Military Platform. The briefing will include a discussion of Contract Types, Data Rights & Licensing, Commercial Parts Pool, Leveraging FAA Testing, and Future Modification Strategies. The brief will also provide a quick overview of the KC-46 Program and Aircraft Capabilities Major General Christopher Bogdan KC-46 Program Executive Officer and Program Director, KC-46 Tanker Modernization Directorate, United States Air Force Maj. Gen. Christopher C. Bogdan is the KC-46 Program Executive Officer and Program Director, KC-46 Tanker Modernization Directorate, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is responsible for developing, testing, fielding and supporting the replacement aircraft for the KC-135.  General Bogdan was commissioned in 1983 from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has served as [read more]

9.30 Fleet Management: A Sustained Strategy To Reduce Maintainer Burden CW 5 Art Gribensk, Program Executive Office-Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, United States Army Fleet management (FM) is defined as a sustained proactive strategy to gain and maintain platform and system visibility by gathering and exploiting data with the goal of increasing operational availability, reducing maintenance burden on the Soldier, and decreasing or controlling overall fleet operating costs. In this presentation you will learn first hand about the tools and techniques being implemented today and how they reduce maintenance burden, increase availability, reduce mission aborts, and reduce total ownership life cycle costs. CW 5 Art Gribensk Program Executive Office-Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, United States Army CW5 Gribensk began his aviation career as an Apache pilot assigned to 3/227th, Apache Training Brigade Fort Hood, Texas. He was deployed to Hanau, West Germany as part of the first Apache battalion assigned to the famous 3rd Armored Division in defense of the Fulda Gap during the Cold War. He also served Iraq in support of Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield where he fired the first Hellfire [read more]

10.30 Refreshment Break & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone Refreshment Break & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone

11:00 Adapting Boeing Commercial AHM Strategies For Military Applications: A C-17 Case Study David Kinney, Associate Technical fellow, Integrated Vehicle Health Management, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Luigi Righi, Manager, New Technology Applications, Boeing C17 Program, The Boeing Company Overview of commercial uses of Airplane Health Management (AHM) Health management strategies in the commercial and defense industries – what’s different? Building a business case for AHM Understanding the systems, applications and infrastructure needed to support AHM Turning available airplane data into useful, actionable information David Kinney Associate Technical fellow, Integrated Vehicle Health Management, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Dave is an Associate Technical Fellow at the Boeing Company, specializing in Integrated Vehicle Health Management. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 from the University of California, Davis. During his 22-year career in the commercial aerospace arena, he has designed electrical and electronic systems on modern jet aircraft and supported airline technical op [read more] Luigi Righi Manager, New Technology Applications, Boeing C17 Program, The Boeing Company Lou is responsible for technology road-mapping efforts and delivering new, or leveraging existing, technology across Boeing programs.

11.40 Lunch For All Attendees Lunch For All Attendees

12.40 A Roadmap For Active Systems Health Management Kai Goebel, Senio Scientist, Lead Progrnostics Center of Excellence, Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Analytical methods integrated into the Army Aviation RCM program have created unprecedented opportunities for deriving efficiencies. Linking RCM output to Condition Based Maintenance and Supply Chain Optimization defines an efficiency thread with potential for improvements in cost and readiness from the tactical unit level through the strategic materiel enterprise. Focusing on one of many manifestations of RCM derivative methods the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command has endeavored to exploit the emergent capabilities within this efficiency thread by developing improved forecasting techniques.Immediate impacts of these efforts showcase AMCOM's response to the DoD strategic imperative of increased efficiency without loss of effectiveness. Maximizing the potential of improved forecasting, however, requires an enterprise approach to implementation articulated across acquisition and sustainment functions. This presentation will highlight AMCOM's efforts to implement RCMenabled improvements in materiel forecasting and some of the most significant requirements for implementation.Mitigating a fault or failure is the ultimate technological goal of a Health Management System. This presentation will cover the current state in Systems Health Management and what technology development is needed to help increase the promised benefit of Monitoring and Health Assessment Techniques.Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss possible avenues that lie ahead and will hear straight from the expert what technology could be utilized to increase the benefit from deploying health management. Kai Goebel Senio Scientist, Lead Progrnostics Center of Excellence, Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kai Goebel is the deputy area lead for Discovery and Systems Health at NASA Ames Research Center and the director of the Prognostics Center of Excellence. Prior to joining NASA, he worked at General Electric’s Corporate Research Center in Niskayuna, NY from 1997 to 2006 as a senior research scientist. He has carried out applied research for condition-based monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics. [read more]

1.20 Innovation Spotlight: US Navy Remote Monitoring: SME Review Process Ken Krooner, President, Engineering Software Reliability Group (ESRG) The US Navy has implemented a business process that has resulted in the ability to bring near real-time failure mode identification and equipment management from the fleet to a central location for operations and maintenance management. This process has been implemented since 2006 and has gone through several six sigma lean events to maximize operational availability of assets while minimize costs. The experiential knowledge gained by having the system in production for over 5 years has lead to many process improvement and lessons learned that can be applied to other organization's efforts in standing up an Integrated Remote Monitoring & Diagnostic Center. Ken Krooner President, Engineering Software Reliability Group (ESRG) Mr. Krooner, President ESRG, LLC, is a graduate of Old Dominion University (BS Engineering Technology). He has over 20 years of experience in operations, maintenance, planning, and program management in the marine engineering field. He has over 15 years of experience with designing, developing, and implementing Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) and Condition-Based Operations (CBO) products, proces [read more]

1:35 Innovation Spotlight: More Capability, Lower Cost — IWSM Solution And Chilean Air Force Case Study Harald Kokelkoren, Director International Business, Co-founder VisionWaves, VisionWaves VisionWaves’ software provides Defense organizations with an integrated insight into their operations. This to ensure mission readiness is sustained at optimal cost of ownership. This unique approach combines management of cost, risk, performance and processes. The solution enables management to increase performance by maximizing control. Harald Kokelkoren Director International Business, Co-founder VisionWaves, VisionWaves

2.05 High Velocity Maintenance – Transforming Depot Maintenance Processes Jerry Mobley, High Velocity maintenance Team Lead, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, United States Air Force High Velocity Maintenance (HVM) is an AFSO21 project spearheaded by WR-ALC and is supported by all USAF levels. HVM's aim is to improve aircraft availability thru reduced maintenance downtime; reengineering scheduled maintenance processes to emulate commercial best practices (by shortening scheduled maintenance down times) and reducing work in progress. Jerry Mobley High Velocity maintenance Team Lead, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, United States Air Force Jerry L. Mobley is the High Velocity Maintenance (HVM) Program team lead for Warner Robins Air Force Base. As the HVM lead, he is responsible developing the HVM processes with an end goal of improving Aircraft Availability by implementing commercial industry best practices that will significantly reduce downtime an aircraft spends in scheduled maintenance. Jerry began his civilian career at Robins [read more]

2.45 Refreshment Break & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone Refreshment Break & Opportunity To View The Solutions Zone

3.15 CBM+ And The CAMEO Project Joe Schmidley, V-22 Automated Logistics Environment Integrated Product Team Lead, United States Navy This presentation will cover the Comprehensive Automated Maintenance Environment – Optimized (CAMEO) Program, which is a multi-program collaborative development of open source products for increased weapon system availability and reduced development and sustainment costs. Joe Schmidley V-22 Automated Logistics Environment Integrated Product Team Lead, United States Navy Joseph Schmidley is the Automated Logistics Environment (ALE) Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for the V-22 Joint Program Office. Mr. Schmidley is responsible for providing direct oversight and management of the Comprehensive Automated Maintenance Environment-Optimized (CAMEO) system for the V-22. CAMEO is a government-owned, open source, joint service system that supports continuous integration [read more]

3.55 Reliability Centered Maintenance - Driving Better Forecasting Since the Office of the Secretary of Defense, MRA&L published guidance on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) on 29 DEC 1978 the DoD has matured RCM practices and leveraged advanced technologies creating threads for generating efficiencies across all facets of acquisition and sustainment. Today the United States Army Aviation and Missile communities have fully embraced RCM as a foundational business practice resulting in multiple transformative programs. Condition Based Maintenance, Supply Chain Optimization, and Stockpile Reliability represent some of the most significant programs emerging from the Army's application of RCM.

4.35 Using CBM+ And Prognostics To Reduce Total Ownership Cost On Virginia Class Subs Christy Goff, Product Support Manager, RTOC Project Manager, Virginia Class Submarine Program, United States Navy No session description available. Christy Goff Product Support Manager, RTOC Project Manager, Virginia Class Submarine Program, United States Navy

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