Winners save Air Force millions
4/29/2005 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- Eight Air Force teams and three people recently received top honors for their money-saving improvements to the Air Force.
The Air Force Productivity Excellence Award recognizes Airmen, Air Force civilians and small groups who have made substantial improvements in productivity. The winners' efforts resulted in more than $79 million in tangible savings. Those improvements came as suggestions through the Innovative Development through Employee Awareness program, special acts and other management initiatives.
This year's recipients include:
-- Team from the 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron at Air Combat Command headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
-- Team from the 1st Component Maintenance Squadron’s test measurement and diagnostic equipment flight at Langley.
-- Team from the 28th Civil Engineer Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, S.D.
-- Team from the 412th Component Maintenance Squadron’s propulsion flight at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, Calif.
-- Team from Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center’s tanker branch aircraft division at Tinker AFB, Okla.
-- Team from the Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center-Pacific at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.
-- Team from the 3rd Equipment Maintenance Squadron’s aerospace ground equipment flight at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.
-- Team from the 48th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England.
-- Randall May from the 20th Contracting Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C.
-- Basil Zibdawi from U.S. Air Forces in Europe headquarters civil engineer directorate at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
The Air Force Exceptional Innovator Award recognizes an Air Force innovator who contributed to continual performance improvement through the IDEA program.
This year’s recipient is:
-- Maj. Michael Headt from the 62nd Airlift Wing’s command post at McChord AFB, Wash. He developed a new procedural instrument flight route in Afghanistan, eliminating about 1,300 hours from the C-130 Hercules fleet annually, and 280 hours for the C-17 Globemaster III. |
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