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SGT Joshua D. Flynn, an unmanned aerial vehicle operator with the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (4-101 ABN), checks an AAI RQ-7 Shadow’s propeller before takeoff at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2013. The Shadow TUAS has flown in excess of 800,000 hours, 90 percent of that in combat. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Justin A. Moeller, 4-101 ABN)
Office (PEO) Aviation directed each PM UAS product office (PdO) in summer 2011 to develop strategies across all pro- gram areas to support DOD and Army cost reduction efforts and BBP guidance. Te Ground Maneuver PdO implemented several initiatives, including:
Establish a reset inspection process— Te transitioning of reset maintenance to field-level maintenance accomplishes BBP guidance to target affordability and control cost growth. Previously, all Shadow systems were inducted for a complete reset, regardless of how long the deployment was, which cost nearly $1 million per system. Field- level maintenance allows the unit to perform a system-level inspection, document
discrepancies and make
repairs based on agreed criteria. Te unit continues to return items requir- ing major repair
and/or depot-level
modifications or upgrades to the origi- nal equipment manufacturer (OEM). Tis strategy is expected to reduce reset
costs by approximately two-thirds. It also minimizes downtime and maxi- mizes operational availability. Te strategy reduces the cost of a complete Soldier retraining, while promoting a rapid, tailored cycle of Soldier training to Readiness Level 1. In the first itera- tion of this initiative, with the Oregon National Guard in June 2012, Product Manager (PdM) Ground Maneuver reduced previously planned reset costs by nearly 90 percent. Soldiers are better able to repair on demand, promot- ing pride in ownership and increasing ready-to-fight time.
Seek reliability improvements—Tis
initiative, based on the BBP principle of incentivizing productivity, determined that upgrading Airborne Computing Equipment (ACE) II and II+ boxes to ACE III was significantly faster and cheaper than procuring entirely new ACE III boxes for the Tactical Com- mon Data Link (TCDL). Te PdM Ground Maneuver team developed an innovative and collaborative supply
chain management
paradigm with
the OEM. As a result, the production team upgraded existing ACE II+ boxes, which resulted in a cost
savings of
$10.9 million. PdM Ground Maneuver is leveraging those savings to pursue other modernization efforts.
Reduce the number of air vehicle (AV) part numbers—Ground Maneuver is targeting affordability and controlling cost growth, specifically eliminating redundancy within Soldier portfo- lios, by reducing the number of parts in stock and the various subsystem configurations. During the wars
in
Iraq and Afghanistan, the PdO made system improvements
in response to
Soldiers’ requests for improved capa- bilities, which resulted
in several
configurations. One of these was the upgrade of the ACE II and ACE II+ boxes. Te ACE III effort reduced part numbers from three to one, improving configuration control while providing a significant increase in platform pro- cessing power. Fewer configurations
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