The NAVAIR Additive Manufacturing team supports Navy and Marine Corps maintainers with AM training, engineering support and technical data to increase readiness in forward-deployed locations where traditional logistics are contested.

Recently, Marine Aircraft Logistics Squadron 36 (MALS-36) and 18^th Maintenance Group (18 MXG) maintainers used AM to return a U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle to the fight in hours, several months ahead of its projected return to service date.

Generating, developing and managing weapons systems’ configuration changes, variances and technical directives (TDs) just got easier thanks to an improved naval aviation configuration management tool.

“The upgrades ensure all configuration changes are fully documented, well thought out and addressed by all stakeholders for executability and supportability, as well as delineate realistic implementation schedules for the Configuration Control Board (CCB),” said Sustainment Group Configuration Management/Data Management (CM/DM) Department Head Daniel Christensen.

Mentoring is a symbiotic and dynamic relationship, providing mutually advantageous professional and personal advantages to both parties, according to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Sustainment Group Senior Enlisted Leader Master Chief Timothy Hucko. Hucko was named as the NAVAIR Mentor of the Year for Headquarters and Program Executive Offices, one of 11 winners celebrated at a virtual NAVAIR National Mentoring Month ceremony on Jan.

Program office decision makers, engineers, logisticians and other stakeholders now have an improved and comprehensive information technology solution that supports quicker and deeper analyses of weapon systems’ long-term sustainment health and interdependent processes. Called the Sustainment Program Baseline (SPB) Dashboard, it tracks a weapon system’s sustainment phase performance against an established baseline.

Two Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Sustainment Group product support managers (PSM) were recognized as winners of the Department of the Navy (DON) Acquisition Excellence Award, Product Support Managers of the Year at a ceremony in the Pentagon Jan. 10. Edward Henderson, PSM for the Naval Undergraduate Flight Training Systems Program Office (PMA-273), is the 2023 DON Product Support Manager of the Year – Acquisition Category (ACAT) I.

Fleet maintainers will soon have access to clearer technical directives (TDs) that tell them how to inspect or alter the configuration of aircraft, engines, training systems and support equipment thanks to a recently released software wizard developed by the Sustainment Group’s Configuration Management/Data Management (CM/DM) Department.

Thirty-nine logistics management specialists launched a new chapter in their careers at a Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Navy Acquisition Development Program (NADP) graduation ceremony held at the University System of Maryland in California, Maryland, Sept. 13.

Ann Wood, acting Sustainment Group director, acknowledged the graduates’ perseverance, most of whom participated in NADP during COVID-19. She asked them to draw from that experience and apply it to all of their personal and professional endeavors.

For Matthew Cosgrove, winner of the 2022 Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Product Support Manager (PSM) of the Year (Major Defense Acquisition Programs/Acquisition Category I Program) Award, it’s all about professional and personal accountability and a shared understanding of a common goal.

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) International Transportation Team Lead Mark Vernetti was named the 2022 Department of the Navy Acquisition Excellence Awards Supply Chain Acquisition Professional of the Year Nov. 3 for his efforts that quickly and effectively met U.S. international partners’ mission requirements.

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Program Support Manager (PSM) Jon Byrd was presented the 2021 Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment PSM of the Year Award (Major Defense Acquisition Program, Acquisition Category 1) by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Product Support Lisa Smith during a ceremony Feb. 24 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. The Department of Defense recognized Byrd for his contribution in successfully increasing the number of mission-capable MH-60 Seahawks available to the fleet by 10%.