requires military program managers to use the organic industrial base—depots and arsenals—rather than private con- tractors for at least half of the programs’ maintenance and repair functions.
With the IPT, TYAD gains a forum in which to communicate strategically with PEO C3T, its largest customer. Likewise, with key systems in or entering sustain- ment, PEO C3T will know firsthand how it can maximize its use of the organic industrial base to provide better value to the Soldier.
EARLY WINS In 2014, when it came time for PEO C3T’s Project Manager for Tactical Radios (PM TR) to maximize the effectiveness of radio requirements in a nondevelopmen- tal item environment, TYAD worked in partnership with PM TR’s Technical Management Division to find a solution for a universal tray mount for the new two-channel, software-defined Manpack Radio. Te IPT helped open lines of communication that resulted in TYAD modifying and redesigning an existing mount to produce a solution that can fit into any vehicle.
TYAD is now producing the first 200 universal mounts through low-rate ini- tial production and plans to ship the first batch this spring to platform designers of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, the Abrams tank and other vehicles for installation and assessment. Without the IPT, this effort could have gone out for solicitation instead of TYAD executing a quick modification of an existing mount.
PM TR has a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with TYAD for radio support that is updated and funded yearly. Tis MOA covers stocking, storing and issuing PM TR assets, as well as software upgrades,
SATELLITE REFRESH
SPC Emmanuel L. Tate, signal support systems specialist, and CPL Nicholas L. Dye, STT operator, both with 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (3-4 ABCT), test the strength of the signal their STT is pulling at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in February 2015. The STT was the first of many subparts of WIN-T Increment 1, the tactical communications network first fielded in 2004 to support forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be overhauled at Tobyhanna in a partnership between the depot and PEO C3T’s PM WIN-T to return aging equipment coming in from theater to a like-new state. (U.S. Army photo by SPC Gregory T. Summers, 3-4 ABCT Public Affairs)
unserviceable asset screening and cable fabrications. PM TR is also partnering with TYAD on warranty repair agree- ments with companies, with the potential to provide full-rate production radios to PM TR. Te IPT is expected to standard- ize procedures so that program managers can make better milestone decisions in a program’s acquisition life cycle.
In October 2015, the IPT also helped facilitate a successful memorandum of
understanding (MOU) between
TYAD and PEO C3T’s Product Lead for Common Hardware Systems (CHS), the Army’s one-stop shop for tactical commercial off-the-shelf information technology
(COTS IT) hardware. In
essence, the MOU establishes a program whereby CHS and Tobyhanna will col- laborate to repair out-of-warranty CHS COTS IT hardware. Tobyhanna has the
Te CHS-5 contract requires vendors to establish a public-private partnership with TYAD to ensure that competitors for the contract consider the Army’s organic
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capability to repair 78 CHS part num- bers, giving units and program offices a means to replace their hardware by using the Army’s organic industrial base instead of going to the original equip- ment manufacturer.
Te MOU will also enable TYAD to build upon the repair and reset capa- bilities of the
assets that the TYAD
workforce is already working on and to establish standards and processes inter- nally for the equipment that it hasn't yet seen. Furthermore,
the MOU sets up
TYAD as a viable sustainment partner for the upcoming CHS-5 contract, with an anticipated release in 2017.
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