Utility Helicopters Project Office (UHPO)

Challenge

The UHPO needed to modernize and modularize current tools – both unique and common ones – and deliver a toolkit product to the War Fighter that was agile, flexible, deployable and sustainable. The CSA directed a transformation of Army Aviation units to become a capability-based maneuver arm optimized for the joint fight with a shortened logistics tail.

Tools for the UHPO War Fighter were individually issued. With no standardized kits, War Fighter battalion personnel had to gather the necessary (and frequently misplaced) tools for each support mission. Wasted time and heightened inefficiency hampered the UHPO's support services.

Solution

In concert with Total Package Fielding (TPF) practices, the DRC team applied proven processes in the efficient development and delivery of Materiel Fielding Packages to the War Fighter. We analyzed force structure changes and developed strategies to support emerging doctrine. By modularizing and packaging specific toolkits, DRC’s logistics, materiel, and information technology services have enhanced the performance and cost effectiveness of the War Fighters’ mission essential task list (METL).

We developed technical documentation, provisioning, and technical data to support follow-on fabrication, integration, deployment, and sustainment of up to 400 UH-60 Peculiar Ground Support Equipment (PGSE) Deployment Support Kits (DSK). The DRC team consolidated over 60 individual tools, toolkits and test sets into easily transportable Pelican cases, significantly reducing the footprint and improving equipment accountability. Battalions today have preconfigured toolkits in sufficient quantity so that each company can perform its support mission when called on.

Benefits/Achievements

Enhanced the Combat Commander's capability to support multiple split operations with modular and rapidly deployable UH-60 PGSE DSKs.
Delivered, ahead of schedule and under cost.
Provided the right equipment, at the right place, at the right time.

Our successful, on-target UHPO efforts have won DRC continued recognition. The 25th CAB Commander, noted, "The tools are top-quality, well packaged, permanently marked, and shadow-boxed.…Genius and dollars went into these kits…. Thanks again …for sending me the right equipment; but, more importantly, the right [DRC] people."

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