Staveley Instruments in Kennewick, WA is being awarded a $10.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide for Eddy Current Flaw Detector Units to perform Non-Destructive Inspection on various aircraft. Solicitation began August 2002. The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, GA issued the contract (FA8518-05-D-0010).
Recording knowledge learned through battle-tested situations is more important than ever. To improve Marines combat effectiveness the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL) has created an online Lessons Management System to ensure this information will be readily available. This web-based system contains documented experiences from before Operation Desert Storm, including some from Vietnam.
“One of the things we are finding new with the current MCCLL is we are relearning lessons again and again,” said Maj. Kevin Mooney, liaison officer, II Marine Expeditionary Force (FWD) and reservist from Hercules, CA “If we go back to World War II and look at an after action report, you can see the repetition over the years. We’re doing the same things wrong now that we were doing back then. We are also doing the same things right that we were doing back then, but the lessons learned usually come hard.”
