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| Name 8 foreign participant nations |
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| Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, and the United Kingdom |
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| What are considered F-35 sustainment assets? |
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Spare Propulsion System
Support Equipment
All JSF Air System Spares |
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| The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a _________ _______ fighter whose system development was shared by nine countries. |
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| What is the rationale behind the creation of a single global pool for F-35 sustainment assets? |
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| Savings arise from the need to stock fewer total spare parts than if all the participants operated on a purely national basis because of differentials in demand, particularly for high-cost parts with a low failure rate. |
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| Name 3 risks for single global pooling of F-35 sustainment assets? |
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Definition
1. Security and allocation priority of scarce spares
2. Configuration management and control
3. Shirkers unable or unwilling to pay for their share |
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Term
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| C-17 Global Integrated Sustainment Partnership |
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| What is the significance of the GISP? |
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| It is one of the few successful past global spares programs implemented |
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| T/F Most major European military aircraft programs during the 1960s through 2000 involved collaborative development and procurement, and most of these programs resulted in successful comprehensive spares pooling. |
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False
"yet few of these programs" |
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| What are the characteristics of a successful global pooling program from 1960 - 2000? |
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1. One partner plays a dominant role
2. There is full international ownership and operation of the entire weapon system
3. Ad hoc bilateral relationships exist between small partners
4. Temporary sharing agreements for deployments and exercises |
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Definition
| NATO Airborne Warning and Control System |
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| T/F The United Kingdom played the dominant role in the F-104G program, an example of a successful global pooling program. |
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| European Participating Air Force |
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Term
| EPAF is associated with what program? |
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Term
| What nations participated in the Euorofighter Typhoon Program? |
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| Germany, Italy, Spain, UK |
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Term
| What key time points were measured for the Eurofighter Typhoon case study? |
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1997 -ILS MOU
2001 - IERS
2005 - IERS FOC for comprehensive international spares pooling
2011 - RAF strips jets for spare parts ~50% Typhoons grounded, UK National Audit Office
2012 - 11 Contracts consolidated to 4 |
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| Industrial Exchange & Repair Service |
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| Number of support contracts negotiated out of IERS? |
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Definition
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| How is the F-35 pooling program different from historical success stories? |
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Definition
| Sustained success observed when international partners had little stake in the design and development stages. The F-35 was a collaborative development effort. |
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Term
| What was the USAF role in the few successfully sustained spares pooling programs? |
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Definition
| USAF subsidized the program and exercised clear technological, financial, and economic leverage. |
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Term
| What appears to make the C-17 GISP program a success? |
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Definition
| Strong confirmation control by the USAF. Foreign partners must maintain the currently approved configuration baseline set by the USAF. |
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| Who is the configuration manager of the C-17 GISP spares pooling program? |
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Definition
| USAF Air Mobility Command |
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Term
| T/F Since 1960, there are far more failures in implementing international spares pooling programs than success stories. |
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Definition
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| How have barriers to successful spares pooling been mitigated as they relate to U.S. export control laws? |
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The U.S. retains ownership of all spare parts until export.
Ownership is transferred to the partner company upon installation.
Boeing serves as the single point exporter. |
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| Name 2 key success factors to the C-17 GISP program. |
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Definition
1. Conformance to fleet standards.
2. USAF pays for non-recurring costs of upgrading aircraft. |
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Term
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Definition
Part with low failure rate
Expensive to manufacture
pooling allows a smaller number of parts to be stocked and shared |
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| Lead time variability in relation to total demand is reduced as the pool increases. This favors smaller fleets. |
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Term
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Definition
| The requirement by independent fleets for specific parts at different times thereby leading to some, but not complete overlap of demand for the same part. This permits a pool to stock a smaller total number of parts than would be the case if all the air forces stocked separately. |
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