Navy Newsstand (Dec. 13, 2005): Hornet industry and Navy teams win honors.Several industry and Navy-led teams behind the F/A-18 Hornet The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F/A-18 Hornet is a modern all-weather carrier-capable strike fighter jet, designed to attack both ground and aerial targets. Designed in the 1970s for service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. have received prestigious recognition for their work in building and supporting the Navy's premier fighter-attack aircraft. The Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS), based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a unit of The Boeing Company responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. F/A-18 program won top honors at Aviation Week's 2005 Program Excellence Awards during the publication's Aerospace & Defense Programs and Productivity Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. Nov. 15. Boeing is the prime contractor manufacturing the aircraft. Two Navy-led teams supporting the Hornet hornet: see wasp. fleet were also recently announced winners of the first Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics Performance Based Logistics is a strategy for system support. Instead of goods and services a supplier is payed for a guaranteed level of performance and system capability. The supplier often has to guaranty the performance at lesser costs but has more control over all logistics elements. Awards competition. Aviation Week's program excellence initiative evaluates four categories of program leadership--strategic linkage, organizational capability, managing complexity, and delivering performance. The initiative, launched in 2004, was developed on the basis of distinguishing between leadership and management, and the multi-faceted complexities of program leadership. The criteria were developed in concert with NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , Defense Acquisition University, the Strategic Leadership Institute, and industry leaders. "Smart program management among the Hornet Navy and industry team is essential to meeting our shared obligation to the warfighter. This program continues to deliver increasing capabilities at decreasing cost, ahead of schedule, all while the Navy is proving the worth of the aircraft in combat today," said Capt. Donald Gaddis, the Navy's F/A-18 program manager (PMA PMA (papillary-marginal-attached), n a system of epidemiologic scoring of periodontal disease devised by Schour and Massler in which the symbols denote the areas involved in gingival inflammation. PMA Progressive muscular atrophy 265) at Patuxent River Naval Air Station A Naval Air Station is an airbase of the United States Navy. Such bases are used to house Naval Aviation squadrons and support commands. List of Functioning US Naval Air Stations
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The program's award submission pointed out that the Super Hornet has the highest readiness rate of any Navy tactical aircraft, even while equipped with state-of-the-art technologies. The Super Hornet is a multi-mission aircraft used for air superiority, day/night strike with precision-guided weapons, fighter escort, close air support, suppression of enemy air defense, maritime strike, reconnaissance, forward air control, and mid-air refueling. "The Hornet program has set the benchmark for future programs in the key areas of cost, schedule, overall performance, and integrating complex technologies. The Hornet program's success is due directly to the culture the Hornet team leadership has fostered," according to the program's award submission statement. The two recognized Navy teams are Navy/General Electric F404 PBL PBL Problem-Based Learning PBL Phi Beta Lambda PBL Performance Based Logistics PBL Planetary Boundary Layer PBL Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (Australia) PBL Philippine Basketball League PBL Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Team (sub-system level winner) and the Navy/Honeywell Auxiliary Power Unit An auxiliary power unit (APU) is a device on a vehicle whose purpose is to provide energy for functions other than propulsion. Different types of APU are found on aircraft, as well as some large ground vehicles. Total Logistics Support PBL team (component level winner). Navy Inventory Control Point leads both teams. The teams were selected from among numerous submissions from all military services. Their innovative logistics support solutions significantly increased the readiness of the F/A-18 Hornet, and that of other Navy aircraft, and reduced the cost to operate and maintain those aircraft. The teams received their awards at the Aerospace Industries Association Fall Product Support Conference in Hilton Head, S.C. Nov. 7-9. The Hornet program--which includes the Navy and the Boeing-led Hornet Industry Team (Northrop Grumman, General Electric, and Raytheon)--was previously recognized with the Collier Trophy in 2000, which cited the Super Hornet's previous year performance, efficiency, and safety as well as completion of the developmental program ahead of schedule and under cost. Wagner is with Naval Air Systems Command The Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, is the part of the United States Navy which provides materiel support for naval aircraft and airborne weapon systems, such as guided missiles. NAVAIR was established in 1966 as the successor to the Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons (BuWeps). , Program Executive Office (Tactical Aircraft Programs) Public Affairs. |
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