Presented to:
Huntsville Aerospace Marketing
Association
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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. Review completed by the AMRDEC Public Affairs Office
5 Feb 2009; FN3832.
11 July 2013
Presented by:
Mr. Jeffrey Langhout
Director
Aviation Engineering Directorate
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• Who is Jeff Langhout?
• What is AED?
• Why do our customers need AED?
• The Big Three
• Transforming
• What Lies Ahead…
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• Raised in Huntsville
• BIE, Auburn 1986; MSE, UAH 1991
• Army employee since April 1986.
– MSIC/TSMO (1986-2002), Cargo PM (2002-2013), AED (2013-)
• Christian
– Believe 100% that God is always with me and wont throw at me more than I can handle
– Our time on Earth is when we decide what eternity will be for each of us
• Relationships run the world… processes are important, but people and their relationships are what gets things accomplished.
• What you see is what you get
• Hobbies: Golf and taking care of church stuff…
• Married to Jackie for 26 years. Children -- Grace 21, Robert 18
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• As the FAA is to commercial aviation – AED is to most of Army Aviation
• Mission: “Deliver responsive airworthiness solutions throughout the system life cycle. Sustain the leadership and engineering expertise necessary to provide valued products to our aviation customers”
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• Definition: “The property of an air system configuration to safely attain, sustain, and complete flight in accordance with approved usage limits”
• Governed by Army Regulation 70-62
– DA-G4 (LTG Mason) is the Airworthiness
Proponent
• AMCOM CG (MG Collyar) is the Airworthiness
Authority
– MG Collyar delegates to AED for the majority of Army Aviation
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Aviation Engineering Directorate
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Delegated Airworthiness Authority for
~ 4000 manned and 8000 unmanned a/c
~ 100 different model/design/series
Liaison Engineers in the field enabling readiness and OPTEMPO
Principal architects of
UAS airworthiness policy
DoDD 5030.61 on airworthiness
International Military Airworthiness
Authority recognition
AIRWORTHINESS
Standards
FY13 Funding (~$162M)
Personnel
Civil Service
• PhD
• Masters Degree
• Bachelors Degree
Contractors
SSTS (Inhouse)
SSTS (Contract)
RDTE (Inhouse)
AWCF(Inhouse)
AWCF (Contract)
OCO (Contract)
Reimbursable (Inhouse)
Reimbursable (Contract)
Overhead
~ 500
~ 20
~ 165
~ 350
~ 300
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Aviation Engineering
Directorate
Director
Business Mgmt
Division
Associate
Director for
Technology
Aeromechanics
Division
Mission Equipment
Division
Propulsion
Division
Structures &
Materials Division
SED Aviation
Division
Maintenance Engr
Division
Sustainment
Division
Deputy
Director
Aviation Systems
Division
Associate
Director for
Systems
Armed Scout Helo
Division
Cargo
Division
Apache
Division
Special Opns
Aircraft Division
Utility
Division
Non-Standard RW
Division
Unmanned Aircraft
Systems Division
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• Because of The Quality Products We Provide:
– Airworthiness Releases (AWR)
– Statement of Airworthiness Qualification (SAQ)
– Airworthiness Impact Statements (AWIS)
– Airworthiness Qualification Plans (AQP)
– Expert reviews of assigned CDRLs
– Quality Deficiency Reporting (QDR) analysis
– Expert analysis, advice, service, and consultation in: structures and materiel, aeromechanics, mission equipment, propulsion, sustaining and maintenance engineering, and test support.
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• Three Key Points I continue to drive home with the workforce and our customers.
– 1. We take our mission seriously, we don’t take ourselves seriously.
– 2. Our job is to get our customers to their finish line.
– 3. We want our customers to want us on their teams, not have to have us on their teams.
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• As a necessity due the Army’s role with MI-17 and furthered now with the adoption of DOD Directive
5030.61…
– AED’s role now includes validating/verifying processes rather than conducting detailed engineering data analysis when determining airworthiness acceptability of foreign airworthiness authorities.
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Foreign Military Airworthiness
Authority (MAA) Recognition
NATO AWWG
Russia
Singapore
(CH-47, AH-64)
Canada
Italy
(C-27J)
Canada
(CH-47)
Unilateral
United
Kingdom
US Navy
US Army
USAF
Australia
New
Zealand
Bilateral
Czech
Netherlands
UK
(in work)
Sweden
(in work)
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Air and Space Interoperability Council (ASIC)
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• Sequestration isn’t going away anytime soon
• Our customer budgets are shrinking
– 80+ % of our money comes from our customers…
• Continued “quality of life” pressures
• Hiring freeze – so struggling to build the bench
• All that said:
– AED will continue to make the choice to be happy and motivated.
– We are a proud organization that looks forward to continuing to provide quality and timely products to our customers.
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