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Integrity Service Excellence
Sustainment Overview
8 April, 2014
Mr. Joseph Baker
Deputy Capability Lead, Agile
Combat Support
Air Force Research Laboratory
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What is Sustainment
• Joint Publication (JP) 3-0, Joint Operations
– Sustainment: The provision of logistics and personnel services necessary to maintain and prolong operations through mission accomplishment and redeployment of the force
– Logistics: Supply, maintenance operations, deployment and distribution, health service support (HSS), logistic services, engineering, and operational contract support
• Joint Publication 4-0, Joint Logistics
– Maintenance Operations: Depot maintenance operations, field maintenance operations and manage life cycle systems readiness
– Supply: Manage supplies and equipment, inventory management and manage supplier networks
AFRL Sustainment Science Focus On Maintenance Operations & Supply
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Source: AF/A4/A7
A-2
F-3H
F-3H
B-60
B-52
A-3
S-2
F-10
F-100
B-57
F-102
F-104
A-4D
B-66
F-11
C-130
F-101
T-37
F-8
P6M-1
U-2
F-105
C-133
KC-135
F-107
B-58
F-106
F-5
C-140
T-2
F-4
A-5
T-39
AO-1
T-38
A-6
E-2
SR-71
C-141
B-70
F-111
A-7
OV-10
C-5
F-14
S-3
A-10
F-15
F-16
B-1
E-3
AV-8
F/A-18
E-4
KC-10
F-117
T-46
T-45
B-2
CV-22
T-1
VC-25
E-8
T-6
C-17
MQ-1
F-35
KC-46
MQ-X
LRS
Currently in inventory
Projected inventory
Average Aircraft Has Been In Service 25 Years
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
F-22
RQ-4
MQ-9
Problem: Aging USAF Aircraft
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S&T Sustainment Products
Tools/Processes To
Perform Sustainment
Tasks Better
Technologies To
Fundamentally Change
USAF Sustainment
Sustainable
Technologies
for the Future Fleet
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AFRL Sustainment S&T Vision
Lead the Discovery, Development and Transition of Technology Solutions
to Ensure Current and Future Fleets are Safe, Available and Affordable
Signed 2010 Signed 2011 Draft 2014
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Affordability & Sustainment
Emphasis Areas
Support Sustainment of
Current AF Fleet (Field
and Depot)
Improve Fleet Health
Management
Improve Manufacturability
of AF Systems
Enable Longer Life, Lower
Life Cycle Cost Systems
Enable Robust Design of
New Systems
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Support Sustainment of Current AF Fleet
(Field & Depot)
• Deliver Technologies To – Improve resolution of non-destructive inspections
– Reduce component failure rate
– Reduce hazardous materials usage
– Provide technical expertise to support fielded systems
– Develop material substitution and obsolescence solutions
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Improve Fleet Health Management
• Develop Technologies That – Maximize useful life of engine components – Enable condition-based maintenance of aircraft structure – Characterize, model & test structural component damage
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Enable Robust Design of New Systems
• Expand Engineering Tools To – Improved design tools for corrosion resistance
– Utilize residual stress in structural design
– Improve prediction of aircraft structural life
– Demonstrate novel propulsion technologies
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Improve Manufacturability of AF Systems
• Develop Manufacturing Technologies To – Reduce touch labor and cycle time to manufacture systems, sub-systems
& components
– Increase yield, integration and reliability
– Ensure manufacturability of new technologies
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Enable Longer Life, Lower Life-Cycle
Cost Systems
• Create Technologies That – Enable earlier management of manufacturing risk
– Integrate “cradle-to-cradle” digital environments
– Allow production rate-independent assembly & fabrication
– Reduce life-cycle cost of low observable systems
– Integrate computational methods for discovery, design and
manufacturing
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Partnering Opportunities
• Wright Dialogue with Industry
– 22-24 July at Wright-Patterson AFB
• Areas of Interest
– Risk calculations and risk-based decision making
– Composite materials and certification
– Digital twin/digital thread concepts
– Non-destructive inspection techniques (airframes, engines,
satellites and weapons)
– Manufacturing technologies
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Sustainment Demonstrations
Sonic Infrared Nondestructive
Evaluation
• Probability of Detection Evaluation
May-June 2014
Rapid & Accurate Fuel Leak
Detection
• RFID Tag Demo Complete
Friction Plug Welding for
Panel Repair
• Full Scale Repair Demo June
2015
Durability of Embedded Sensors
• Ground Based Demo & Flight Demo
Begin 2015
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• A Defense-wide Manufacturing S&T team-led, Multi-agency collaboration between industry, government and universities
• Public-private partnership
• Shared facilities open to industry
― Especially attractive to small businesses
• Enabling technology transition and commercialization
• Addressing Technology Readiness Level (TRL) /
Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 4-7
– Bridge the gap in Manufacturing Innovation
• Educational outreach and workforce development
America Makes
A Model for Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
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Priority #1
Improve Resiliency
Reduce Mission Energy
Improve Energy Delivery
Priority #2
Reduce Demand
Advanced Technology
Development
Efficient Operations
Priority #3
Increase Supply
Waste Energy Harvesting
Renewable Energy
Integration
Priority #4 Foster Energy Aware Culture
Measure OE Consumption
Analyze Energy Impacts
Cavalier AFS
#1, 2, & 4 Next Generation Flightline
#1, 2, & 4
Maui Advanced Energy Storage
#1, 3, & 4
REPRESENTATIVE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
Advanced Power Technology Office
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What We Want to Hear From Industry
− What are industries “Big Bets?” How is industry making decisions for
IR&D?
− How can AFRL and industry achieve better alignment (road-mapping)?
− What are the current trends in S&T that AFRL may be missing?
http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/
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