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Show HILL TOP TIMES fniay. Dk7Dsiin) keeps wecopo'ira Another vital repair function is the repair and installation of all Air Force Directorate of Maintenance simulators and flight training devices. The Missile and Aircraft Systems The Training Devices Section in Bldg. Division here plays an important part 5 acquires, tests, evaluates, and furin keeping the Air Force's sophisticatnishes logistical support to the simued weapon systems combat ready. lators throughout their life cycle. The Missile and Aircraft Support Employing more than 2,000 people, the division operates many diverse Division also manages and tests mumissile and aircraft component repair nitions at the Utah Test and Training activities. The five branches helping Range and has worldwide managemaintain those weanon svstems are: ment responsibility for all reconnaissance photographic equipment. the Engineering Planning Branch, Precision Measurement Equipment To ensure all Air Force weapon sysLaboratory Branch, Scheduling and tems are manufactured to accuracy standards and maintain their calibraInventory Control Branch, Automatic Test Equipment Software Branch tion and certification, the Precision Production Branch. and the Measurement Equipment Laboratory Work includes depot maintenance performs certification and calibration. on intercontinental ballistic missiles This is an Air Force Logistics Comlike the Titan and Peacekeeper and mand certified lab which means' an such missiles as the. evaluation team from the Air Force AGM-8- 6 air launched cruise missile. Guidance and Metrology Center Overhaul and repair are also perchecks the lab's ability to verify stanairborne tactical and on air formed dards set by the National Bureau of AGM-65 defense missiles like the Standards., The Automatic Test Equipment Maverick which will soon be receiving infrared Software an guidance sysSupport Branch tests all of Maintenance's automatic test equiptem for tracking. ment. Their verification program enThe mainstay of missile workload has been the Minuteman, backbone of sures accurate test programs for new automatic test equipment software America's missile force. Special equipment maintaining that missile indevelopment and maintenance of excludes one of the world's largest y isting test programs. which checks the propellant machines Saving money and enhancing inside the missile motor casings for productivity are as critical to the division's mission as maintenance. For voids that could cause malfunctions. Since 1982, maintenance has been perexample, the TRAC team, or Technoformed on 2,800 Minuteman missiles. logical Research of Advanced Con By August 17. 1984 r- -j sysfiemms eommbot iresadly Jackie Fricke . cepts, Avionics Section in Bldg. 100, was created in 1981 to effectively salvage old items plus create new items no longer manufactured. Initially TRAC was projected to save $51 million in five years, but the team is presently working more than 80 projects and future savings are estimated at $252 million. A unique productivity improvement project is the installation of an automatic robot for stripping and painting AIM-- 9 sidewinder guidance and control assemblies. This Air Force test model demonstrates the high efficiency and productivity within a potentially hazardous environment. The project has been so successful that other potential maintenance opera- - tions are being explored for robotic use. The division thrives on new challenges such as Rivet Mile. Requiring 450 new employees and peaking in 1985, this project will ensure reliability and efficiency of the Minuteman system into the next decade. Boyd Thurgood, chief, Missile and Aircraft Systems Division, speaks proudly of the division's outstanding employees and their contributions. "It's a pleasure for me to work with such experts. They do their job so well it's no wonder our division has the reputation of being the finest maintenance and repair facility in AFLC," he said. . all-weath- X-ra- riiiiiiiiiAi-S?s'iii,'J- (U.S. Air Force Photo) A Minuteman missile in the Missile Assembly and Maintenance Shops area, Directorate of Maintenance, is ready to be disassembled. Classifieds! Cost of a personal classified ads in the Hill Top Times is $4.00 for the first forty words. Deadline is 5.00 p.m.. Wednesday, week of publication. Hill Top Times ; P.O. 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