PBL Teams Honored with Secretary of Defense Award

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BAE Systems, GE Aviation and
Lockheed Martin Corporation and their service partners were recognized
Wednesday with the fifth annual Secretary of Defense Performance-Based
Logistics Awards.

Developed by the Defense Department, the Defense Acquisition University and
AIA, the awards recognize excellence in providing our warfighters with
exceptional operational capability through PBL agreements. They are made to
system, sub-system and component teams.

"Performance-based logistics definitely provides an edge to the business of
weapons systems management," said Marion Blakey, president and CEO of AIA.
"The pressures on our maintenance and modernization budgets make these types
of partnerships a cost-effective model for the future."

The system-level awards were made to Lockheed Martin's Consolidated Automated
Support System-Navy partnership and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket
System-Army team.

HIMARS maintains an average system status readiness of more than 95 percent
and a 99.9 percent material availability, providing an estimated $7.65 million
cost avoidance during 2009.

CASS has documented $2.9 million in savings and cost avoidances for the
government, as well as maintaining an average supply material availability of
99 percent for repairable items and 98 percent for consumable costs throughout
the life of the program.

GE Aviation and the Defense Logistics Agency, and BAE Systems and the Navy
received the sub-system awards. The GE-DLA award was for the performance of
the F404 engine PBL agreement, which resulted in a cost savings of $53.4
million.

BAE Systems and the U.S. Navy achieved a cost avoidance for a five-year
contract period of $2.1 million for the AN/LQ-126B electronic countermeasures
system. The integrated team approach to analyzing warfighter demand, planning
spares stock levels and piece part buts led to 99.8 percent guaranteed
availability for 50 months.

Lockheed Martin and the Navy won the component-level award for the
AN/UYQ-70(V) Advanced Display Screen. With commercial-off-the shelf equipment
and a successful technology refresh initiative, the program generated cost
savings of more than $1.5 billion over 15 years.

The awards were made during AIA's Product Support Conference in Hilton Head,
South Carolina.

Founded in 1919, the Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation's
leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft,
helicopters, unmanned aerial systems, space systems, aircraft engines,
materiel, and related components, equipment services, and information
technology.

SOURCE Aerospace Industries Association

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