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11 July 2013

Presented by:Mr. Jeffrey Langhout

Director Aviation Engineering Directorate

Presented to:Huntsville Aerospace Marketing

Association

Approved for public release;distribution unlimited. Review completed by the AMRDEC Public Affairs Office5 Feb 2009; FN3832.

AED Familiarization and US Army Airworthiness

Overview

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AGENDA

• Who is Jeff Langhout?• What is AED?• Why do our customers need AED?• The Big Three• Transforming• What Lies Ahead…

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Who is Jeff Langhout

• Raised in Huntsville• BIE, Auburn 1986; MSE, UAH 1991• Army employee since April 1986.

– MSIC/TSMO (1986-2002), Cargo PM (2002-2013), AED (2013-)• Christian

– Believe 100% that God is always with me and wont throw at me more than I can handle

– Our time on Earth is when we decide what eternity will be for each of us

• Relationships run the world… processes are important, but people and their relationships are what gets things accomplished.

• What you see is what you get• Hobbies: Golf and taking care of church stuff…• Married to Jackie for 26 years. Children -- Grace 21, Robert 18

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WHAT IS AED?

• As the FAA is to commercial aviation – AED is to most of Army Aviation

• Mission: “Deliver responsive airworthiness solutions throughout the system life cycle. Sustain the leadership and engineering expertise necessary to provide valued products to our aviation customers”

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AIRWORTHINESS

• Definition: “The property of an air system configuration to safely attain, sustain, and complete flight in accordance with approved usage limits”

• Governed by Army Regulation 70-62– DA-G4 (LTG Mason) is the Airworthiness

Proponent• AMCOM CG (MG Collyar) is the Airworthiness

Authority– MG Collyar delegates to AED for the

majority of Army Aviation

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Aviation Engineering Directorate

FY13 Funding (~$162M)SSTS (Inhouse)

SSTS (Contract)

RDTE (Inhouse)

AWCF(Inhouse)

AWCF (Contract)

OCO (Contract)

Reimbursable (Inhouse)

Reimbursable (Contract)

Overhead

Delegated Airworthiness Authority for ~ 4000 manned and 8000 unmanned a/c ~ 100 different model/design/seriesLiaison Engineers in the field enabling readiness and OPTEMPOPrincipal architects of UAS airworthiness policy DoDD 5030.61 on airworthiness International Military Airworthiness Authority recognition

Personnel

Civil Service ~ 500• PhD ~ 20• Masters Degree ~ 165• Bachelors Degree ~ 350Contractors ~ 300

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Associate Director for

Systems

Associate Director for Technology

Aeromechanics Division

Mission Equipment Division

Propulsion Division

Structures & Materials Division

Armed Scout Helo Division

Special Opns Aircraft Division

Utility Division

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Division

Aviation Systems Division

Cargo Division

Apache Division

Maintenance Engr Division

SustainmentDivision

Director

Business Mgmt Division

DeputyDirector

SED Aviation Division

Non-Standard RW Division

Aviation Engineering Directorate

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WHY DO OUR CUSTOMERS NEED US

• Because of The Quality Products We Provide:– Airworthiness Releases (AWR)– Statement of Airworthiness Qualification (SAQ)– Airworthiness Impact Statements (AWIS)– Airworthiness Qualification Plans (AQP)– Expert reviews of assigned CDRLs– Quality Deficiency Reporting (QDR) analysis– Expert analysis, advice, service, and consultation

in: structures and materiel, aeromechanics, mission equipment, propulsion, sustaining and maintenance engineering, and test support.

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THE BIG THREE

• Three Key Points I continue to drive home with the workforce and our customers.

– 1. We take our mission seriously, we don’t take ourselves seriously.

– 2. Our job is to get our customers to their finish line.

– 3. We want our customers to want us on their teams, not have to have us on their teams.

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Transforming

• As a necessity due the Army’s role with MI-17 and furthered now with the adoption of DOD Directive 5030.61…– AED’s role now includes validating/verifying

processes rather than conducting detailed engineering data analysis when determining airworthiness acceptability of foreign airworthiness authorities.

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Foreign Military Airworthiness Authority (MAA) Recognition

US ArmyUS Navy

USAF

Singapore (CH-47, AH-64)

Unilateral

Czech

Bilateral

Canada

United Kingdom

AustraliaNew

ZealandPeersNear PeersOthers

NATO AWWG

Italy (C-27J)

Canada (CH-47)

Netherlands

Sweden (in work)

Russia

Air and Space Interoperability Council (ASIC)

UK (in work)

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WHAT LIES AHEAD

• Sequestration isn’t going away anytime soon• Our customer budgets are shrinking

– 80+ % of our money comes from our customers…• Continued “quality of life” pressures• Hiring freeze – so struggling to build the bench• All that said:

– AED will continue to make the choice to be happy and motivated.

– We are a proud organization that looks forward to continuing to provide quality and timely products to our customers.

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QUESTIONS?