It’s time for the Joint Services Wiring Action Group (JSWAG) committees to answer the mail, get down to business and address the issues.

At the most recent JSWAG held in November in Virginia Beach so many action chits were submitted the executive committee decided to change the venue and format for the upcoming May conference in order to solely focus on the outstanding action chits.

Accordingly, the next JSWAG conference, scheduled for May 22-24, will be held at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. and will be invitation only. This intentional limitation will allow members to concentrate resolving action chits without the distraction of other events. The next full JSWAG, scheduled for the second week of November, will return to its previous full scale format.

“We found that we needed more time to work on the action chits,” said Ollie Muja, of the Aging Aircraft wiring team at Pax River. “The ‘A’ in JSWAG stands for action. We need to take action as opposed to just brief on some of the processes. We need to fix things, we need to correct things as the uniformed maintainers and the JSWAG participants are asking for them.”

The JSWAG maintainers' conference was established and chartered by the Navy and the Air Force to collectively provide advancement in safety, reliability, maintainability and readiness of systems.
For the young maintainer, the conference reinforces training and provides insight into how problems are raised, researched and resolved by all four services. It also highlights the importance of the one team mentality inherent within the JSWAG community.

For the seasoned maintainer, it is an opportunity to pass on lessons learned, tricks of the trade and socialize concerns and resolutions in a joint context.

JSWAG is about sharing knowledge, Muja said, but it is also about solving problems.

There will be 15 participants for each of the six committees: executive, training, design and installation, quality components, fiber optics and maintenance. Under the maintenance committee there is one subcommittee – data acquisition/analysis.

There are many action chits needed to be addressed, Muja said. Some easy, some hard, some can be completed at a relatively low cost and some will be more expensive and take more time to fix.

“As a joint services organization, you have to be keenly aware that one fix in the Navy will not fix something in the Air Force or Army,” Muja said. “For example, the means in which you employ a training issue in the Navy is not the same as you employ in another service. Different organization, different structure, different tools.”

It is important that all services send representatives so that their interests are taken care of.
Contact Muja at [email protected] for more information on attending.