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Show 'hill top times Fridoy, The Productivity, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Program Office and the Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center, Newark AFS, Ohio, recently completed a project using a laser scanner for measurement testing. PRAM, by the Air Force Acquisition Logistics Center and Aeronautical Systems Division, provided the funds while AGMC monitored the project. "Ed Eckley came to us (PRAM) with the idea in November 1983. After the idea was approved, we tested the scanner at the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory here," said Capt. Larry A. Lee, PRAM program manager. ed At AFB, eight technicains work in the Dimensional Standards Section. Using a standard measuring machine located in a d environment, the technicians make thousands of measurements each year of pins, wire gauges and other pieces of precision equipment used for repairs of Air Force weapon systems. , Each item is attached to the standard measuring machine, with pressure manually adjusted to a preset level. The measurements are read out on a Vernier, a device used for precision measurements, the accuracy of which must be to the four to six decimal place. The results are manually computed ana tne necessary adjustments are made. "This Wright-Patterso- n climate-controlle- Juw 28, 1985 process requires a great deal of time and patience. When you consider that there are 19 other PMELs in the Air Force doing the same work, we're looking at a large amount of time and money being spent on measuring precision equipment," Captain Lee said. This process is further complicated by the fact that most items need to be measured several times in positions. In order to get an accurate measurement, it is sometimes necessary to wait until the item's temperature stabilizes from being handled by the technicains. "The standard measuring machine requires a high degree of skill in interpreting the Vernier dial and due to the tolerances and tedious nature of making measurements, the possibility of operator error from fatigue exists," said Edward B. Eckley, supervisor of the elecWright-PattersoApril for some service members and were expected tromechanical section at the to affect all designated military personnel by July. The scanner solves all these problems. Using stanBecause civilians are paid by individual installa- dards set by the National Bureau of Standards, the tions, not a centralized finance office, some 1,400 scanner has a greater degree of accuracy than the DOD civilians have gotten a slight reprieve. standard measuring machine and it has a microHowever, their paychecks should reflect a 15 perprocessor that performs all the necessary compucent cut by late summer or early fall, depending on tations, eliminating the need for manual computathe installation. tion. The item to be measured is placed in the laser Mr. Krebs said the loans fall under two categories: beam's path and the measurement is made instanthose made under the Guaranteed Student Loan taneously. The read-ou- t is digital and has a printer and National Direct Student Loan programs. for paper copies of the test results. It requires no Some service members will pay off their default- periodic maintenance, and because of the scanner 's ed loans within two or three months; others may speed, technician fatigue is no longer a problem. take as long as five years to make good on student test, 3,200 wires, precision During the loans up to $15,000, Mr. Krebs said. and measured. Without the items were other pins The collection is the first of its kind since passage laser scanner, it would have taken more than 684 of the Debt Collection Act of 1982, which allows hours to measure these items; the scanner shortened the time to 162 hours. debts owed to one government agency to be collectr ed from salaries paid by another. Similar student The $6,890 project will be offset by a loan collection procedures already have been inof well over $998,000. savings itiated by other government agencies. (AFLC News Service) (AFPS) pre-select- ed Paychecks cuHo cover student loans More than 9,000 Department of Defense military and civilian employees with student loans in default have watched, or can expect to see, their paychecks sliced by 15 percent. The pay reduction, which affects active duty and reserve service members, retirees and DOD civilians, is being used to collect more than $13 million in student loan repayments for the Department of Education. Fifteen percent of an employee's "disposable" pay money left over after mandatory deductions such as taxes, social security and health benefits is being collected. Voluntary payroll deductions, such as those for savings plans or payments, are considered to be disposable income, according to Frank Krebs, a Department of Education management analyst. About 3,600 active duty service members, 2,500 members of the reserve components, and 1,900 retirees have been affected. 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