Northrop Grumman Waits For Contract Announcement, Names Teammates

By Nancy Correro
Editor, The Times of SWLA





Northrop Grumman waits in anticipation to see if they will receive the defense contract to maintain KC 10 aircraft.

"We're especially pleased with the best-in-breed team we've assembled to offer the most innovative, technically superior and low-cost solution to our Air Force customer," said Jim Cameron, corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman Technical Services.

"Together, our team excels in program integration, leveraging the best of our industry partner core competencies while ensuring proactive management and unity of effort to provide comprehensive, responsive and focused support throughout program execution. Such capabilities only mean one thing for our customer—superior service delivered anytime, anywhere."

Northrop Grumman Technical Services is a logistics support, sustainment and technical services powerhouse for the corporation. The sector's Life Cycle Optimization and Engineering (LCOE) group provides a full spectrum of contractor logistics support including logistics management, depot maintenance, sustaining engineering support and global field management.

They announced their teammates for this project and they include: TIMCO Aviation Services Inc., AAR, Chromalloy Gas Turbine LLC, and MTU Maintenance.

TIMCO has extensive experience in maintaining, repairing and modifying DC-10-type aircraft.
AAR is one of the world's leading aviation support companies and provides the Northrop Grumman KC/KDC-10 program team its supply chain management solution.

Chromalloy and MTU Maintenance will provide the engine maintenance and related value-added management solutions for the Northrop Grumman team.

"This exceptional Northrop Grumman team will bring the requisite proven capabilities and qualifications to execute the full spectrum of world-class support the Air Force requires for the KC/KDC-10 program: logistics management, depot maintenance, sustaining engineering support and global field deployment," said Dave Werkheiser, vice president and general manager of the company's LCOE group.

The Northrop Grumman team will leverage its more than 4,300 active suppliers from all 50 states in support of the KC/KDC-10 Program.

The team submitted its proposal to the Air Force May 8, 2009. The contract award is expected before the end of June with contract phase-in set to begin July 1, 2009.