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Show COMUT rNGTM THIOUGH 10G?ST1C$ I i I fcltf f HttMMM9 MttttfitftfV Vol. 45 No. 38 Hill AFB, tM Utoh Sept. 27, 1991 OOALCPA Hill AFB, UT Third Class 84056-599- 0 Serials Order Deportment University of Utah Libraries Salt lake City, UT 84112 i A V V X Overnight deliveries -- -: V "When you absolutely, positively have to have it overnight" sums up service LOGAIR 92 s will provide. A1C Kim Manning, left, and Amn. Robert Coonis, air transport specialists at Ogden ALC Air Transport Terminal, prepare cargo for shipment aboard a if ft (; LOGAIR flight. U S o ( 2lSlU by Frances Kosakowsky Hilltop Times staff writer Tuesday the Ogden Air Logistics Center Air Terminal will become an air express carrier that delivery and, the service will guarantees next-day cost approximately half that of commercial carrier service. Because of its central location in the West and the high quality of its work force, Hill AFB was selected as one of two hubs for a new delivery in the continental United States, said Val Hollands, Hill's air terminal manager. sy-te- m Aif Force photo by Ralph leu f The Hill terminal will join Robins AFB, Ga., the eastern hub, as the primary cargo management and sorting points for the logistics airlift transportation system. "The primary purpose of the new, downsized system is to deliver priority cargo, such as parts for a grounded aircraft, and other items that require special handling," Hollands said. In the past, each of Air Force Logistics Command's five logistics centers Hill, Robins, Tinker AFB, Okla., McClellan AFB, Calif., and Kelly AFB, Texas managed and sorted its own cargo and determined the most expeditious and cost- - effective method of delivery. This meant that each ALC built its own pallets and space was allocated aboard the cargo airplane through logistics control at headquarters AFLC, Hollands said. Also, to utilize any empty space, lower priority freight was put on the airplane to complete the load. Thus, much lower priority freight was transported by air that didn't necessarily require the speedy delivery, he explained. "We won't be handling the volume of lower priority air cargo we used to because the system See LOGAIR 92, Page 2. Future systems managed from cradle to grave WRIGHT-PATTERSO- N AFB, Ohio (AFLC-AFSNews Service)-- Air Force Materiel Command is well on its way to becoming the single acquisition command in the Air Force, according to planning officials. The. command will be formed by integrating Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command. The activation date is July 1, 1992. However, many functions of the two commands are being combined now. "It's going a lot faster than I had C i i Officer given dismissal again anticipated," Gen. Ronald W. Yates, AFSC commander, told an audience at Hanscom AFB, Mass., home of AFSC's Electronic Systems Division. "The goal is to have a single Air Force command responsible for management of Air Force weapon systems," said Gen. Charles C. McDonald, AFLC commander, at his headquarters here, which will house the new command. "Integrated Weapon System Management, or IWSM, ultimately will be the process for developing and 'cradle-to-grav- e' supporting systems, from the time they are a gleam in someone's eye, through their operational lives, to retirement," McDonald said. "Integrated Weapon System Management offers real pluses as the Air Force faces lean times," McDonald said. "Operational commands, which will be the Materiel Command's number one customer, will work with a single manager, who will be responsible for a weapon system over its entire life cycle." The integrated process will eliminate Researchers study effects on animals problems now encountered when weapon system responsibility is trans- ferred from AFSC to AFLC. Currently, a weapon system, such as a new airplane or missile, is developed and budgeted for by Systems Command. AFSC retains responsibility for the system until it is in the field and working. Management of the system then is transferred to Logistics Command, which assumes total program management for the remainder of the system See Cradle to grave. Hill loans SAC practice missile Page 9. |