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Show Hi!!topMl January 21,1 999 oerati ons resources into combat logistics by Col. Hank taylor llllllll Director, Aircraft Directorate lllliill ; of the major motion pictures times, "Titanic," told One recent of story an "unsinkable" ship that ran into trouble. The movie also told the story about the people who sailed on the ship. We are poised to step into a new century with many new and some time tested challenges. ! think there are three important "ships" we need to set" on the right course if our center is to remain competitive and provide the highest level of support for our national ill-fat- ed defense jjru - I nn Col. Hank Taylor and partnership. The reason I think this: efficiencies were up 7 percent from 87 in fiscal year 1997 to 94 percent in fiscal year 1998, yield without overtime was up 20 percent, expense rate was down 11 percent and we had a healthy positive net operating result. But more important than the numbers was the change in the thinking of our work force. I think that change in environment we must operate in to ensure we continue to have the strongest, best equipped Air Force in the world. Let's start with stewardship. Web-- : ster's International Dictionary defines a steward as "one called to exercise responsible care over possessions entrusted to him." For us this means port. Carrying out this commitment Today's complex and interrelated relato good stewardship demands a new world is calling for tionships. In our Center's Strategic style of leadership. to me Plan we are looking for partners to is the simply Leadership to done ability get things through other help us be better stewards of our nation people. In today's world the challenge resources by doing things better, faster, of getting things done through others cheaper. In other words getting the requires a new style of leadership. I best value for our nation's dollars. We recently completed a competition think for the Air Force that new style comworkload coming out of Sacramento for has three components. These ponents are found in an environment Air Logistics Center. Breaking new of trust, teamwork and continuous ground, we entered the competition :.: .with a partner. And I think if you looked improvement. : ow I think these components at that relationship, you will see the are important because they really three ingredients of an intelligent partturn the Core Values of the nership. In a broader sense, in the environAir Force into ACTION; The Core ValAir of acquisition reform, we are of Force ment are: ues the integrity first, service above self and excellence in using integrated teams that not only all we do. Integrity and trust go hand include different functions from the and hand give me something to do government side but also represenand I will do it to the best of my abil- tatives from the contractor or commercial sides as well. Partnership is ity. "Service above self calls for identification with and support for the team. a ship we will all travel on into the 21st "Excellence in all we do" drives us to century. We see it in the commercial world and I think it is one of those best always seek continuous improvement. We are as good as we are going to be practices that could have payoff in our because we are always trying to get business as well. better. Leadership has a special imporattempt in this article was to a few thoughts on three tance in today's environment of right I think will help us budthat limited and sized work forces, gets. We must get the most out of every move forward together into the 21st single person and it's almost like we century. We all need to be good stewards of our nation's resources and in all must be partners. And that brings me to my last ship, order for us to get the most out of conpartnership. In a good or intelligent strained budgets, we need to get the partnership I think there are three most out of each and every person who important ingredients. First, each works with and for us. That calls for party must bring something to the a new style of leadership that fosters table This is usually some strength, an environment of trust, teamwork, expertise, or unique capability. Sec- and continuous improvement. And finally, we need to think about some ond, there needs to be a mutual straterelationships that will gic value in the relationship. The to long-tera allow us form a for is desire here partnerships where implication of both worlds a out in the we And best get finally, relationship. good partnership, the glue that holds government and commercial. the relationship together is more than Riding these three ships will allow some degree of trust is us to continue providing the best defense legal ties needed to make the relationship spe for the best nation in the world. the proper care and use of our nation's thinking is an acceptance of the responresources. Next to the most impor- sibility to be good stewards of the tant resource people spending resources entrusted to us. our nation's money is the biggest chalyear 50 percent of the submitted in the air manlenge we have facing defense center came from the agers today. For us in the Ogden ALC Aircraft Aircraft Directorate. People are lookDirectorate, cost is now just as impor- ing for ways to do things better, faster, tant as schedule and quality. In fis- and cheaper. We now have units and cal year 1998, we took the challenge major commands asking to have their worked at Hill. to squeeze as much as we could out of Our wing shop has reduced the time every dollar. We confirmed our comit takes to overhaul a wing from 56 to and mitment to lowering costs improv18 days. You get the impression that ing production by signing a performance contract with our Executive Director people feel they own the processes of the Center. Among other things, they work everyday. We are not here for our internal existence, but rather . we committed to improving our efficiencies, increasing the yield per indi- we are here to serve the American peovidual, lowering our expense rates and ple and to do our part in providing for producing a positive net operating pur national defense. In other words, we are here to be good stewards of our result. We were able to accomplish all of nation's resources and to turn those This C-1- 30 N My out-of-the-b- m be careful what' message you send E-ma- il: These are defined in Air Force Instruction paragraph 3.5. For the most part, they are brief messages under specific circumstances and do not adversely affect the system or reflect negatively upon the Air Force. j The regulations don't provide for sending large movie files to 200 friends. People should 33-11- by Ken Wright 77th Communications Squadron McClellan AFB, Calif. Many people couldn't do their job without it. Sometimes people wish they had never heard of it. While the technology has great capabilities, it has brought with it new problems and challenges. most withEveryone is guilty of misusing out realizing the impact of th'eir actions. People are putting themselves at risk of disciplinary action each day, and the excuse "I didn't know" is wearing pretty thin. The Air out-of-the-b- . ; stewardship, leadership these are important today is because they really provide the framework or cial. sup- service is for offi- Force-provide- d cial business. Conversely commercial ail accounts accounts at home are not for and free cial use. offi- 9 . ber this when they receive files like. "SNOWMAN AVI." ;T.he problem is that messages start backing up in base gateways. Technical people spend, hours deleting messages from the queues to stop the system from failing. The problem compounds when official business is queued behind the junk mail. Recently at McClelto the Pentalan AFB, Calif., an important gon was queued behind a Halloween greeting. almost always tells computer people who .the sender of the message was. This can create more visibility than people want. , E-m- . 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