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REPAIRING AIRCRAFT FASTER AT LOWER COST Heather Wilson FROM THE E-RING: OUR CHARGE Lt. Gen. Warren D. Berry DESIGNING FLEXIBILITY INTO GOVERNMENT SPRING 2019 MODERNIZATION PROJECTS ER Mr. Steven Lane CHARLESTON: LOGISTICS READINESS REDEFINED … IN THE TOWN OF TRADE WELCOME TO PHASE III LTC Abby Johnson & CPT Homar M. Marval Col Kirk Peterson & Capt Douglas Ruark LOGISTICS AGILITY & RESILIENCEY: TRAINING TROOP SUPPORT EVENT THE SUPPLY CHAIN POSES QUESTION: Capt Evan Hanson HOW AND WHERE CAN BLOCKCHAIN HELP? COMBATTING John Dwyer III COUNTERFEIT PARTS IN THE DOD RESILIENT SUSTAINMENT SUPPLY CHAIN Dr. Daniel W. Steeneck Capt Jason M. Leighton & Maj Timothy Breitbach THE EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE THE AIR FORCE PROFESSIONAL LOGISTICS JOURNAL THE EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE EXECUTIVE BOARD EXECUTIVE STAFF LOGISTICS OFFICER ASSOCIATION MILITARY JOURNAL President Chief Acquisition Officer Carol Howitz Jeff Hamblin [email protected] Symposium Director Vice President Greg Lowe, Lynda Lowin, Jason Kalin Holly Gramkow [email protected] Membership Officer Table of Contents Chief Financial Officer Jason Kalin Laura Holcomb Evin Greensfelder [email protected] [email protected] 4 Repairing Aircraft Faster at Lower Cost LOA Historian Chief Information Officer Jeff Decker 6 From the E-Ring: Our Charge Ryan VanArtsdalen [email protected] Charitable Program Officer 8 Designing Flexibility into Government Modernization Projects Tammy McElhaney Chief Operations Officer 15 Readiness Redefined … Welcome to Phase III Jondavid DuVall, Lt Col (Ret) AOA Representative [email protected] Shawna Matthys 18 Troop Support Event Poses Question: How and Where Can Blockchain Help? Zachary Matthews Executive Senior Advisor Casey Kleisinger 20 Resilient Sustainment Lt. Gen. Warren D. Berry Chief Learning Officer 28 Charleston: Logistics in the Town of Trade Jared Stewart [email protected] 32 Logistics Agility & Resiliency: Training the Supply Chain Board of Advisors 38 Combatting Counterfeit Parts in the DOD Supply Chain Judy Fedder, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) THE EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE Kevin Sampels, Col, USAF (Ret) 42 Edwards AFB Muroc Chapter Visits Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Art Cameron, Brig Gen, (Ret) Editor in Chief Scott Fike, Col, USAF (Ret) Gerard Carisio 44 Troop Support Hosts Logistics Officers Association Chapter [email protected] Legal Advisor William Rogers Assistant Editor Ms. Mary H. Parker, Col (Ret) Managing Editors Mr. Robert Bosworth, Montanna Ewers, Richard P. Schwing, Col (Ret), Andrew ON THE COVER Kibellus, Holly Gramkow, Nathan Elking, Lisa Mccarthy, Corbin Aldridge, Nicholas F-16C Fighting Falcons with the 13th Fighter Squadron, assigned to Hufnagel, Alexander Barden, Damiqua Misawa Air Base, Japan, sit on the south ramp at Andersen Air Force “Champ” Champion Base, Guam, Feb. 28, 2019. Misawa AB’s F-16s were among the nearly 100 aircraft participating in this year’s COPE North exercise in Guam. Director, Publishing & Online Production (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jarrod Vickers) David Loska Director, Graphic Design & Art Jenny Jones 2 | EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE MILITARY JOURNAL | ATLOA.ORG | ISSUE 147 ISSUE 147 | ATLOA.ORG | EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE MILITARY JOURNAL | 3 Heather Wilson Secretary of the Air Force We are testing – and in some cases already using – 3D casing for a B1-B Lancer. 3D printers are also used to printing to create replacement parts in a process known produce and test more quickly and at much lower cost as additive manufacturing. Expanding this capability prototype replacement parts. will allow the Air Force to print parts on-demand parts across our global operation. 3D printing is, perhaps, the most well-known new technique, but it isn’t the only one being adopted by the Air Force. The Air Force is increasingly using cold spray technology to repair high cost parts that in an earlier era would have been replaced. Cold spray applies Repairing Aircraft metallic powders at high speed that, upon impact, Faster At Lower Cost adhere to the surface. This technology is being used The Air Force now has more than to repair hydraulic lines and skin panels for the B-1 Air Force Adopting Predictive Maintenance “fifty 3D printers in use at 17 bomber. and Advanced Manufacturing locations... We expect 3D printing As with predictive maintenance, additive manufacturing can simplify a supply chain and give us A US Air Force C-5 Galaxy cargo plane equipped with predictive maintenance replacement parts faster and at lower cost. sensors made history recently when it “told” aircraft technicians that a part was of spare parts, particularly for older about to fail and maintenance was needed. Understated as it was, the episode aircraft, to change the way we do It’s important to recognize too that the flightline of the marks another significant moment for the Air Force and our effort to develop new future is much more than simply changing the way we tools for maintaining aircraft in a way that increases readiness and lowers cost. maintenance. make replacement parts. Predictive maintenance involves analyzing aircraft on-board sensor data, telemetry At Sheppard AFB, Airmen are using what’s called the data, and historical maintenance data to develop usage-based algorithms to identify The Air Force now has more than fifty 3D printers in use Adaptive Gaming and Training Environment to reduce degraded components or systems. By utilizing onboard prognostics and diagnostic at 17 locations. We also have 16 printers that produce the time required to train maintainers by 30 percent. If sensor data users can provide recommended actions via alerts to the appropriate metal parts. The C-5 is using nine parts produced by it works, we want to spread the idea across the service. stakeholders as to the right time and place to change a component. While the additive manufacturing, and this is only the beginning. While the particulars and details vary, the thread current predictive maintenance system is still in its early stages, the goal is for We expect 3D printing of spare parts, particularly for Predictive connecting all of these efforts is a tireless focus aircraft to tell us, in real time, what parts are about to fail before they fail. older aircraft, to change the way we do maintenance. maintenance is on improving the readiness of the force by driving “ Achieving that will translate directly to improved readiness and reduced cost. Among the parts being produced or being tested innovation in the way we maintain aircraft. We have no only one of the time to wait. The Air Force’s early results show a potential 30 percent reduction in unscheduled include armrests and switch knobs for microphones, new tools we are maintenance on the subsystems of the aircraft we are testing. We intend to move crew compartment panels and in one case, a dashboard testing to build a to conditions-based maintenance approach for all aircraft as rapidly as possible. more lethal and Predictive maintenance is only one of the new tools we are testing to build a more ABOUT THE AUTHOR lethal and ready Air Force. ready Air Force. Heather Wilson is the 24th Secretary of the Air Force and is responsible for the affairs of the Department One of the most time-consuming steps in maintaining airplanes is removing paint. of the Air Force, including the organizing, training and equipping and providing for the welfare of 685,000 Working with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Advanced Technology active-duty, Guard, Reserve, and civilian forces as well as their families. She oversees the Air Force’s annual and Training Center, the Air Force is developing lasers to replace hazardous budget of more than $138 billion and directs strategy and policy development, risk management, weapons solvents and elbow grease to strip paint off of airplanes. Where the old technique acquisition, technology investments and human resource management across a global enterprise. filled a 55-gallon drum with hazardous waste, using lasers sharply reduces the amount of waste. It also reduces the labor needed to remove paint, which saves both time and money. 4 | EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE MILITARY JOURNAL | ATLOA.ORG | ISSUE 147 ISSUE 147 | ATLOA.ORG | EXCEPTIONAL RELEASE MILITARY JOURNAL | 5 FROM THE E-RING Think of the power of this tool when applied ever more to document maintenance at the point of need. The broadly. We’ll change unscheduled maintenance into first iteration of Virtual Forms for G081 is available scheduled maintenance, allowing us to change parts at a across the mobility enterprise, and the IMDS mobile time and place of our choosing. We’ll have better parts app (called BRICE) is in test with our A-10s at Davis- demand data, helping us eliminate time you’re simply Monthan. Imagine not having to re-enter your waiting for a part in order to green up an aircraft. We’ll maintenance actions in multiple IT systems. A novel Lt. Gen. Warren D. Berry reduce down time, and prevent MRTs which take seasoned concept, right? It’s here, and we are committed to scale Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, maintainers and equipment away from scheduled sorties. up quickly. Engineering and Force Protection, In the end, it gives us more predictability…for the aircraft and for you. And all of this is just the beginning. We’re exploring Headquarters U.S. Air Force, how to tap into even more of that unrealized capacity Arlington, Virginia We continue to push forward in Additive Manufacturing. across the sustainment portfolio. We’re bringing Like CBM+, this will alter the equation of how long you’ll Theory of Constraints to sortie generation, mimicking have to wait for a part. In fact, coupled with CBM+, this the successes we’ve seen across other industrial becomes a true game changer. While we have not yet 3-D processes. We’re looking at ways to implement more printed flight/safety critical parts, rest assured we are of a fleet management approach to our weapon Our Charge close.