The Secretary of Defense tasked the Air Force to reduce its mobility footprint in support of contingency operations. Reduced budgets, force structure, equipment, and infrastructure forced the Air Force to reevaluate its logistical structure. Specifically, the logistics community had to find a better way to move thousands of personnel and equipment to support our expeditionary aerospace forces. The result of these efforts was a new concept in logistical support. Lean Logistics and its principal concept, Two-Level Maintenance (TLM), sought to shrink the mobility footprint by drastically reducing base intermediate-level repair and establishing a leaner two-level repair process. TLM promised to reduce the logistical infrastructure, produce significant savings and manpower costs, and increase survivability during contingency operations. A closer analysis of TLM shows that it did not achieve the full measure of the intended benefits. The projected net savings for implementing TLM did not materialize because of unexpected cost overruns. Transferring the repair of avionics boxes and engines from base level to depot level resulted in a bottleneck of 5,575 critical parts in the depot repair system. Audits conducted by federal and military audit agencies observed a sharp increase in aircraft cannibalizations following TLM implementation and a steady decline in mission capable rates. This paper will analyze in detail the impact of TLM, its impact during Operation ALLIED FORCE, and propose some recommendations that will hopefully improve this key logistical process.


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    Title :

    Logistical Effectiveness of a Two-Level Maintenance


    Contributors:
    W. J. Ames (author)

    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    44 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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