EDWARDS TO STUDY PRIVATIZING JOBS; MOVE COULD TRANSFER 141 POSITIONS TO CONTRACTORS.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Base officials are studying whether work being done by three Air Force units can be done more cheaply by contractors. If the answer is yes, the move could result in 141 military and civilian positions being turned over to private industry in 2000. ``I can tell you in all honesty Honesty See also Righteousness, Virtuousness. Alethia ancient Greek personification of truth. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 18] Better Business Bureau nationwide system of organizations investigating dishonest business practices. [Am. this is not the last study we're going to announce,'' said Brig Brig, town, Switzerland Brig (brēk), Fr. Brigue, town, Valais canton, S Switzerland, on the Rhône River, at the north entrance of the Simplon Tunnel. . Gen. Richard ``Dick'' Reynolds, Edwards' commander, in an announcement in the base newspaper. ``The future of the Flight Test Center is probably going to pivot, in a large way, on competitive sourcing and privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned . Overall, our objective has to be to come out at the other end of this process, as it plays out over the years, as at least as good, or even better Flight Test Center as we are today. And I think that is entirely possible.'' The study will look at three units in the 412th Logistics Group - the Transient A malfunction that occurs at random intervals and lasts for a short duration such as a spike or surge in a power line or a memory cell that intermittently fails. See spike and power surge. transient - 1. Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Aerospace Ground Equipment Flight and Airdrop air·drop n. A delivery, as of supplies or troops, by parachute from aircraft. tr. & intr.v. air·dropped, air·drop·ping, air·drops To drop or be dropped from an aircraft. Noun 1. Research Flight. The purpose is to determine whether it is more cost-efficient to continue to employ the existing work force or bring in a contractor, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jerry Saville, chief of the manpower office at Edwards. The study is expected to be completed in late 2001. A separate, Air Force-wide privatization study will affect Edwards' Precision Measure Equipment Laboratory, which repairs and calibrates precision measuring instruments and has 35 military and 23 civilian positions. That study is expected to be completed in 2000. Earlier this year, Edwards turned over its supply operations to United Paradyne Corp., a Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. firm. That move resulted in the loss of 121 government civilian jobs and 215 military positions. By turning over the supply operations to a private contractor, the base will save $5.9 million over the four-year, five-month span of the contract, base officials said. |
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