Air Armament Center

Challenge

The Air Armament Center at Eglin AFB, like other acquisition centers experienced a significant exodus of experienced Government civilians. In addition, the pendulum is swinging back from total system performance responsibility for the prime to greater responsibility for the Government. This, along with the drawdown in active duty personnel and increased ops tempo, has intensified the requirement for experienced contractor support.

Solution

DRC is a team member (MacAulay Brown is the prime) on a contractor team providing technical acquisition and management support to the Air Armament Center and its associated units. DRC employees provide critical program management, logistics and financial functions for the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Joint Program Office, and Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) program within the Air to Air Program Office. DRC's IT expertise provided to the Munitions Directorate is critical to the development of new air-launched weapons technology, including new fusing devices, aerodynamics and miniaturization of the weapons. Our engineering support to the Agile Combat Support Program Office encompasses several critical support programs including shelters and various pieces of ground support equipment.

To ensure full stewardship of the available program funds, DRC provides expert financial support in clearing contract closeout for multiple program offices. The clearing of ULOs (Unliquidated Obligations) and NULOs (Negative Unliquidated Obligations) ensures, not only that contracts are funded at completion, but that excess funds on the contracts are recaptured for use in other critically needed areas.

Benefits/Achievements

DRC's tools such as our Risk Management Model and our ETAPS financial tracking software allow the program offices to improve their overall effectiveness and management capabilities. The efforts of DRC have resulted in savings in excess of $50M in the clearing of ULOs and NULOs alone. DRC's recommendations for innovative approaches to acquisition have assisted the program offices in tailoring procurements and easily adopting new streamlined acquisition solutions, resulting in time and dollar savings to the programs. Our support was key to the JDAM program's winning of the DOD David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award and the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award.

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