By Betsy Haley
NAVRIIP Communications Action Team

NAVRIIP University adds 100 more seats for the one-day training session on March 16. The course will focus on the processes, tools and applications available in the NAVRIIP and AIRSpeed toolkits.

To accelerate the understanding of the Naval Aviation Readiness Integrated Improvement Program (NAVRIIP) processes, introductory courses are scheduled each quarter in 2004. The first course will be held on March 16 in Patuxent River, Md. at the J.T. Daugherty Conference Center. Course completion will help those involved expedite the progress to cost-wise readiness and leverage best business practices to meet readiness goals.

Members of NAVRIIP management team, and the Thomas Group, a consulting company with expertise in process management, will teach the course. NavU training will occur on the third Tuesday of the last month of each quarter. Other 2004 dates are:

June 15th – San Diego, Calif.
September 14th – Norfolk, Va.

For registration and course information, contact the Thomas Group by email at [email protected], or by calling 972.401.4276. Additional sessions will be added if demand exceeds the current schedule.

NAVRIIP is a comprehensive program designed to make fundamental process changes to the way the Navy provides cost-wise manpower, equipment, maintenance, supply and training to stateside Naval Aviation commands between deployments. AIRSpeed is NAVRIIP’s enabler for operationalizing cost-wise readiness across the Naval Aviation Enterprise.

The training will consist of four modules, each lasting two hours. The first introduction module will concentrate on NAVRIIP and AIRSpeed history, the charter and organization, and an overview of the processes, tools, teams and success stories. The second module will cover key processes used in the NAVRIIP program, including metrics management, barrier identification and removal, as well as actions in progress management. The third module will focus on NAVRIIP tools and attendees will have a choice on which two tools overviews to attend – theory of constraints, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, the aviation financial analysis tool, earned value analysis or the Kelly Index. The fourth module will address effective team membership for the cross-functional team and barrier removal teams, type-model-series teams. An overview of product enterprise teams will be added later.

For more information on NAVRIIP and AIRSpeed, go to http://www.airpac.navy.mil/navriip/.