The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center streamlined its C-5 maintenance overhaul process, cutting work time virtually in half. (The ALC bagged a huge prize for the C-5 effort.) Now ALC officials want to put the same process, called critical chain project management, to work on C-130 overhauls, reports the Macon (Ga.) Daily Telegraph. On average, it takes C-130 workers approximately 180 days to strip and repair a Hercules. Officials want that cut by 30 percent. However, the Telegraph reports that some C-130 maintainers are not happy with the new process, citing the age of the C-130s and the increased wear and tear leveled by current operations. By USAF statistics, the C-5 fleet is on average about 10 years younger than the C-130 fleet.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee say the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile program has been set back three months due to the ongoing government shutdown. The comment is noteworthy because the JATM's status has been kept tightly under wraps.
