A new strategy for French military MRO |
| Helen Chachaty |
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05 OCT 2017 | 392 words
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The French Armed Forces minister has officially announced the launch of an "MCO" (in-service support) mission for the aviation sector, following the Ministerial Investment Committee which was held on the morning of 18th September.
According to the press release, "the Armed Forces minister is making improvement in aircraft availability her priority" and so is entrusting Christian Chabbert with auditing this area. Among his tasks will be to "draw up a precise inventory" and "highlight areas for improvement". The ministry specified that the work should enable "a new strategy for aviation MCO", after a precise inventory is established for the fleets in service.
Eight priority areas were identified in the mission letter sent to Christian Chabbert, which Le Journal de l'Aviation has been able to read. The mission will define "the position, responsibility, organisation, resources and skills and governance for project ownership", including the development and production phases for weapons programmes. The programme will also determine these same parameters for "government, industrial (SIAé) and armed forces project owners". The MCO mission should also seek to assess the most effective contracts in the area, with the increase in service contracts (global service packages) which offer stronger guarantees (flying hour, part availability). In addition, the report will also take account of the organisation and concrete links between MCO operations, while examining "the respective role of operational and industrial support levels" and detailing the "industrial strategy of government and industrial project owners". It will also seek to reduce the maintenance load "by optimising servicing plans as soon as the equipment is designed and by optimising maintenance operations during equipment lifetime" and to review the organisation of the logistical chain, while taking account of the "standardisation and regulatory environment in terms of airworthiness and its impacts on MCO".
The first conclusions should be made public in December 2017, with a "stage report" between Christian Chabbert and Florence Parly scheduled for the end of October. The timetable also features the launch by Florence Parly of an "aviation MCO modernisation plan" in January 2018.
Christian Chabbert, a graduate of the ISAE-SUPAERO, has held a number of roles within the DGA, from missiles to aircraft maintenance. In particular, he was the deputy director of the Rafale programme in the 1990s, the director of the AIA, Clermont-Ferrand from 2001 to 2004 and director of the SIAé between 2006 and 2011.
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