Don Schmitt, left, the V-22 Joint Program Office’s (PMA 275) product support manager, accepts the 2012 Adm. Stan Arthur Logistics Team of the Year award July 11 from Rear Adm. Paul Grosklags, the program executive officer for Air Anti-Submarine Warfare, Assault and Special Mission Programs (PEO(A)). The V-22 program logistics team won the award, which honors excellence in logistics planning and execution. (U.S. Navy photo)
V-22 program earns Adm. Stan Arthur Logistics award
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The V-22 Joint Program Office (PMA 275) logistics team was recently chosen as the winner of the 2012 Admiral Stan Arthur Operational Logistics Team award.
Recipients of the Navy award received notification in June; the award was officially presented July 11 to the PMA-275 team at a ceremony in the Rear Adm. William A. Moffett building. The annual award honors military and civilian logisticians who epitomize excellence in logistics planning and execution.
As Operational Logistics Team of the Year, the V-22 logistics team was recognized for its fleet focus, process innovation and attainment of measurable results. The team was instrumental in raising the MV-22's mission capable rate 8 percent over 2011 while reducing the aircraft’s cost per flight hour (CPFH) 6 percent, according to the award citation.
This increase in the mission capable rate and decrease in CPFH translates into savings for the taxpayer said PMA-275 program manager Marine Corps Col. Greg Masiello. “With the projection of 3.7 million flight hours remaining for the V-22 fleet, this CPFH reduction equates to more than $10 billion in life cycle cost avoidance,” Masiello said.
This is the first time the PMA-275 logistics team has won this award, said logistics team lead Don Schmitt, PMA-275’s product support manager. Schmitt accepted the award citation and plaque on behalf of the program office during a presentation ceremony in PMA-275’s main conference room.
“The V-22 logistics team here is honored to receive this award," Schmitt said. “[It] is a culmination of a lot of hard work, not only by our logistics professionals, but the entire V-22 enterprise, to include engineering, program management, test, contracts — both here and at Naval Supply Systems Command [NAVSUP] — our NAVSUP Integrated Weapons Support team, Defense Logistics Agency and our warfighters and maintenance technicians in the fleet who have to implement and execute our ideas and give us feedback.”
“The award would never have been possible without the entire team effort,” Schmitt added.
The Admiral Stan Arthur Operational Logistics award is named after Adm. Stanley Arthur, a naval aviator who flew more than 500 missions during the Vietnam War and served as vice chief of Naval Operations from 1992 to 1995.