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Show 2 Jan. 27, 1994 Hilltop Times (3 B Ififfl Din) GO ED GO G P . n Continued T ' v Force Assessment is a major initiative that will be used to evaluate Air Force organizations in the same way the Malcolm Baldrige Quality criteria is used to evaluate industry. During 1993, the center conducted a study to see how the quality program is working at the center. This study will be used as a baseline against which to evaluate future assessments, Lyles said. Several different areas were evaluated: leadership, strategic quality planning, management of process quality, customer focus and satisfaction, information and analysis, human resource development, and operational results. "The completed study identified 79 strengths and 94 areas where some deficiencies were identified," Lyles said. "That's no surprise it validates that we were honest with ourselves. from Page 1 . 0 i BILLIONS) taw mi isn i9M 88-9-4 OO-AL- na 194 ina C FUNDING CUT FY95 PROJECTION REDUCES AN ADDITIONAL 13 OO-AL- 1994 & BEYOND BRAC BASE CLOSURE PROCESS PRE-BRA- SERVICES NOMINATE LIST OF CLOSURE BASES C iu intumwur ineatutiHT OF DEFENSE OSO SENDS NOMMATION LIST TO THE BASE CLOSURE COMMSSION TIMEFRAME: (MAY BRAC PROCESS G 94) . BASE CLOSURE COMMSSION IS FORMALLY ESTABLISHED COMMSSION BEGINS DELIBERATIONS AND DETAILED EVALUATIONS OF NOMMATED BASES COMMSSION MAKES FMAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND SENDS UST TO PRESIDENT Commander's Call . 'pre-BRA- C . for some of the things that have been studied so is 1994," Lyles said. "If there is going far," he said, "but, I Consider this a golden oppor- to be a 1995 closure process, the Base Closure and tunity for us to get the message out about how un- Realignment Commission will be established at that feasible it is to actually consider closing the Ogden time. ALC." "Then, the commission members will begin their Part of the message Lyles said he wants to get independent evaluations as to which bases they out includes: think should actually be closed." D 15,000 jobs would be lost in Northern Utah. Once the commission makes a decision, it is then D The economic impact to the .community and forwarded to the president. "And that will be in the state is estimated to be $2.3 billion. July 1995 time frame,"Lyles said. O It would take 100 years to recover the costs of "We're trying to avoid having Hill get nominatclosing the center. ed as a potential closure base." It would cost $1.7 billion to close Hill. The 1993 BRAC process involved key criterBase realignment and closure process Lyles ia. Hill was rated good in six of theeight eight areas. e said rumors about Hill being in a "In the areas of community infrastructure to supposture or that Hill has already been identified for port mission and personnel and environmental imbase closure are inaccurate.was rated as marginal," Lyles said. "We're pact, Hill ' i "The base closure process' for 1995,- assuming D Continued on Page 8 May-Augu- st FUNDING OO-AL- C BETWEEN iw MAJOR ISSUES there's going to be one, has not started," he said. "The process will not start until 1995. We're in a position at the moment." All the services are busy doing the same things the Air Force is" doing, Lyles said trying to determine who should be nominated to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission if there's going to be a closure process in '95. "The time frame for nomination lists to be sent right now, Lyles said. "Some of you are concerned about providing data to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission CURRENT ENVIRONMENT (S of the work force felt they are empowered to pro vide an input to help improve their jobs and to help improve this center," he said. "We have a timeline to improve quality at HilL The baseline assessment was completed in October '93 and I have directed the people who led the seven key groups in the assessment to get together by the end of February and come up with action plans that will improve our posture. "I want to solve those problems and get on with progressing toward a quality facility with a quality work force." AFMC 21 Lyles said Air Force Materiel Command is conducting a study called AFMC 21 to look at the entire command and how it should be structured for the year 2000 and beyond. The purpose of the AFMC 21 study is to more closely match depot maintenance capability with the diminished number of air wings in the Air Force. At the moment, it is estimated that AFMC has 30-4-0 percent more depot capacity than is required to support these wings. Lyles said the studies that have been done at Hill and McClellan AFB, Calif., are only the first part of AFMC 21. There will be other studies to look at the other centers and organizations within AFMC with the same scrutiny Hill is being looked with 49 FUNDING BY Commander's Call "Any major organization, whether it be a corporation or some other DOD agency, will find that when they go through this sort of assessment that they aren't as good as they think they are and, we are certainly no different." Lyles said his goal is to work on the deficiencies identified in order to improve the center's posture. "Based on surveyshat we've conducted and interviews I've had, only about 30 percent face-to-fa- ce . base-closur- - - - Miner to assume No. 2 slot at Ogden ALC Thomas L. Miner has been selected to become the Ogden Air Logistics Center's first executive director, Air Force officials announced. Miner, who currently is serving as the deputy director of Logistics at Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterso- n AFB, Ohio, replaces Brig. Gen. Charles H. Perez, who is to become commander of the 377th Air Base Wing at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Perez is the last military member to hold the position as Ogden's second in command. Upon Miner's arrival, the position will become a Senior Executive Service slot and be renamed the center's executive director. This change comes as a result of AFMC's decision to abolish center vice commander military positions in favor of more stable civilian slots filled by SES personnel. Three other of AFMC's air logistics centers have already made this conversion: Sacramento ALC, McClellan AFB, Calif.; Oklahoma City ALC, Tinker AFB, " Oklal; and San Antonio ALC, Kellv AFB, Texas. Miner is no stranger to Utah. He served as chief of the Missile and Aircraft Systems Division for the former Directorate of Maintenance at Ogden ALC from 1987 until 1989, when he was selected to the Senior Executive Service and reassigned to Oklahoma City ALC. "My wife and I are delighted to be returning to the Ogden ALC and to Utah," Miner said. "The center faces some big challenges ahead, but I know from working with the Hill team in the past that they're ready; willing and able to meet those challenges. "The support the base and its workers receive from the local community is unmatched in military circles. I look forward to returning and working with Hill's military and civilian employees and our neighbors in the community." Miner began his civil service in 1967 as a management intern at San Antonio ALC, and was later transferred to Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command, Wright-Patterso- n AFB. There he worked in three functional directorates and was responsible for many key programs, including the Depot Maintenance Service, Air Force Industrial Fund and the command workload management process. From Wright-Pattersohe came to Hill and then went to Oklahoma as the deputy director of Maintenance for the Oklahoma City ALC. In 1991, he became Tinker's director of Commodities Published by MorMedia, Inc., a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under exclusive written contract with Hill AFB. This commercial enterprise Air Force newspaper is an authorized publication for members of the U.S. military services. Contents of the Hilltop Times are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. government, the Department of Defense or the Department of the Air Force, ! Wright-Patterso- 1 . . , t 5 (OGDEN) OR 532-777- -- Global Power and Reach for America. " Hill AFD Editorial Mai. Gen. Utter L. Lyles Lt. Col. Frank J. 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