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Archives by date > 2012 > October > 24th

ATTAC! Britain Hammers Out Through-Life Support Framework for Tornado Fleet

Oct 24, 2012 13:32 UTC

Latest updates[?]: F3s retired; Testing the wires.
Tornado maintenance

Tornado maintenance

Under ATTAC (Availability Transformation: Tornado Aircraft Contract), BAE will take over depot-level support and maintenance for the RAF’s Tornado fleet, with the responsibility of ensuring that enough of Britain’s Tornado GR4 strike aircraft and Tornado F3 interceptors are available to fly, rather than paying BAE for selling spare parts and maintenance hours.

This “future contracting for availability” approach is a major departure from traditional military and commercial practice; but it has been proven on a smaller scale within the UK’s Tornado fleet, and a number of other platforms are already operating under these types of contracts in Britain. BAE hopes to achieve the required availability levels using a combination of embedded diagnostics, rear-echelon repair process improvements, and what BAE executive and former Air Vice-Marshall Steve Nicoll referred to as the “Dirk Gently approach” to problem diagnosis and maintenance during the September 2006 TFD Group Conference. DID explains what Nicoll meant, and discusses the ATTAC contract and its follow-ons in more detail.

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Rapid Fire Oct. 24, 2012: Primes Continue to Lose Ground in Q3

Oct 24, 2012 11:00 UTC

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  • When President Obama said sequestration “will not happen” during the last pre-election debate, it seems he meant “should not happen.”

  • The US Navy continues to play a significant role [PDF] in the economy of the Hampton Roads area in Virginia.

  • Northrop Grumman’s Q3 2012 sales are down 5.2% (Y/Y) to $6.27B, but their total backlog is up by $1.5B to $41B. Continuing a trend seen in previous quarters, information and electronic systems are driving revenue down, while aerospace has grown 5% to $2.59B thanks to UAVs and the F-35.

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