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Show AF, Navy discuss workload and joint management options will be used as guidance for the BRAC 95 process," said Deutch in the memo.' BRAC 95 is the process of deciding in, 1995 which additional military bases will be closed or realigned. by Timothy C. Ford AFMC Office of Public Affairs WRIGHT-PATTERSOAFB, Ohio (AFMC. News Service) Senior Air Force and Navy officials are coming to agreement on which maintenance workloads are the easiest to consolidate and are discussing joint management options for depots. ' "We are working together on criteria that make sure workloads end up at the locations that do the best quality work at the lowest cost to our customers," said Maj. Gen. Kenneth E. Eickmann, , director of Logistics at Air Force Materiel Command . AFB, Ohio. "We headquarters, Wright-Patterso- n haven't said that one location is better than another, but we have agreed we can put Air Force and Navy work at a common location to support both services r. and eliminate excess capacity." Eickmann and the other officials have been meeting as the Aviation Depot Working Group after Pen-- , tagon memorandums ended open competition for depot maintenance work in May and directed the Air Force and Navy to cooperate on interservicing. ; "The key to making all of this work," Eickmann said, "is mutual trust and respect among the services that if I give you this maintenance workload, ; I know you are going to do good quality work at a N reasonable price." A consensus is emerging, Eickmann said, that the kind of consolidation savings the Air Force achieved in the 1970s can be gained today across the Defense . . Department. In 1973 and 1974, the Air Force clustered similar aviation maintenance workloads and technologies at all landing gear work, for examsingle locations The Hill idea today is to ask the 1995 AFB. at ple, base closure process to consider ending up with one landing gear repair center, one radar repair center, and so on, between the two services, where feasible and y The working group is examining each overhaul commodity and charting whether the Air Force and Navy think it will be easy, moderately difficult or hard to interservice. The services agree, for exam- - Deutch's decision brought to a close the Air Force's public effort to shape a DOD depot operations policy designed to provide high quality work at lower cost by letting the forces of competition de- pie, that it would be relatively easy to overhaul all propellers, instruments or landing gear at single sites. Both agree that radar overhaul poses a moderately difficult challenge because of test range considerations, and both agree that aircraft structures would be hard to interservice. ' 'We agree there is a high probability for interservicing on a lot of things," Eickmann said. "That's . . . . - cost-effectiv- e. termine where work should be performed. Air Force and Navy senior officials for logistics and depot maintenance soon began discussions and were meeting as the Aviation Depot by mid-Ma- y Working Group. Its recommendations, once approved by Deutch, will be given to the Joint Cross Service Group, Depot Maintenance, for evaluation under BRAC 95. "When we agree we can do a particular workload in one place, then BRAC should pick the best place to do it, no matter who owns the depot," Eickmann explained. To determine the most efficient depots, the working group is looking at traditional considerations such as cost, turnaround time, quality, capacity and delivering readiness to combat forces, Eickmann said. Maintenance work between the Air Force and Navy isn't new. For example, San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Kelly AFB, Texas, will be repairing both services' T56 engines, while all repair work on TF34 engines is being transitioned to the Naval Aviation Depot, Jacksonville, Fla. The Air Force while the Navy repairs all repairs all Deutch endorsed continuing this concept of core maintenance capability as a DOD function. Core is the capability for maintenance, repairs and upgrades that must be done in organic DOD depots to ensure the military forces can meet readiness and sustaina-bilit- y requirements. A DOD core capability, instead of service-uniqu- e core, means the services can work on each other's weapon systems when improvements in efficiency and cost effectiveness can be obtained through interservicing. In his memo to the Navy and Air Force secretar-- a big step." Eickmann said AFMC will cooperate with the other military services to gain savings as soon as possible, working within the guidelines of the 1995 Base Closure and Realignment Commission process but not deferring everything for a BRAC decision. The direction follows a May 4 Pentagon memorandum that ended competition for depot maintenance work. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Deutch's memo halted all competitions between military depots and the private sector and stopped competitions between depots. In a related memo, Deutch urged the secretaries of the Air Force and Navy to consider joint depot management and joint operations alternatives, to get the most for the dollar. 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