Naval Air Maintenance Trainers - NAMT Project Title: Naval Air Maintenance Trainers - NAMT - Rework Program Project Customer: United States Navy

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Project Overview: ACME is responsible for addressing maintenance trainer discrepancies across the entire spectrum of Navy maintenance training devices.

ACME Services Used: Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Technical Documentation.

Project Details: The ACME effort to address these discrepancies includes:

a) Evaluation of Navy maintenance trainers to ascertain trainer status.  

b) Repair of existing trainers to address faulty equipment, obsolete parts, or out of tolerance trainer performance. The trainer repair has included fabricating obsolete components, reverse engineering to identify currently available parts and components, and re-designing trainer unique printed circuit boards. 

c) Refurbishment of trainers to eliminate obsolete parts and extend the trainer life.

d) Modification/update of trainers to include new equipment and avionics to ensure the trainers is current with the fleet configuration. The update effort typically includes introducing new avionics and the development of trainer fault insertion.

e) Modification of trainer support equipment and facilities.

The work on each trainer is identified as a separate contract CLIN, and the work on each trainer is a separate fixed-price amount. To accomplish these tasks, ACME develops work plans, provides hardware and software engineering support, provides manufacturing support, performs quality inspections, develops test procedures, performs operational checks, and updates trainer/training device technical documentation (drawings and MOMIs). Typically, there is little technical documentation supporting the trainer. Consequently, ACME works from aircraft Technical Orders (TOs), initiates investigations with aircraft equipment suppliers, and reverse engineers the trainer. In short, ACME does whatever it takes to fix the trainer.

The initial contract award was to address the discrepancies on 17 maintenance trainers. After successfully resolving the discrepancies, the contract has been amended numerous times to add additional trainers. At the present time, ACME has successfully resolved the discrepancies/requirements on over 100 training devices.

Delivery Date: Ongoing

Customer Comments:

NAVAIR Evaluation of ACME’s Past Performance
• Manages resources very effectively
• Remained responsive performing under a dynamic schedule
• High quality products
• Unexpected additional requirements were well managed
• Assigned appropriate resource level to meet requirements
• Surpassed the minimum design expectations
• Excellent cost/value ratio
• Excellent recovery from changes
• Great design capabilities and quality workmanship
• Well-written and logically formatted documentation
• Company goes beyond the requirement
• Variety of talent and expertise
• Exceptional communication and coordination efforts
• Always delivers on time or accelerates the delivery schedule
• Exceptional management
• Clearly demonstrated its ability to deliver quality products and
satisfy technical, cost, and schedule requirements in their area
of expertise.

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