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Air Force Depot Maintenance

Air Force depot maintenance provides for the repair and overhaul of the Air Force's aircraft to "like-new" status. Depot maintenance of existing aircraft is critical to ensure that the Air Force has an adequate number of aircraft to protect national security.

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Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The Air Force depot maintenance program is effectively maintaining the Air Force's aircraft. The Air Force consistently meets its goal of having a high percentage of mission capable aircraft. For example, at any given time 80% of F-15Es were mission capable in 2005.
  • The Air Force's depot maintenance program has made continuous improvements in efficiency by adopting best manufacturing practices from private industry. This has reduced the amount of time required to overhaul aircraft and resulted in better quality control. At the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, the Air Force has reduced the time required to overhaul KC-135s from 440 to 230 days.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing best practices from private industry to improve its efficiency and quality control.
  • Using performance-based contracting and public-private partnerships to ensure that contractors improve schedule adherence and quality control.

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