tig brief - Air Force Inspection Agency
tig brief - Air Force Inspection Agency
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IG Bits & Pieces<br />
AFMC<br />
<strong>Inspection</strong><br />
Efficiencies<br />
Progress<br />
This is an update on what AFMC<br />
has accomplished and where we are<br />
headed in response to the Chief’s<br />
CORONA Tasker for <strong>Inspection</strong> Efficiencies.<br />
In particular, AFMC has made efforts to<br />
consolidate and synchronize inspections<br />
and increase whitespace for organizational<br />
commanders,<br />
while reducing our<br />
inspection footprint,<br />
redundancies, costs<br />
and manpower,<br />
thereby ensuring<br />
a more value-added inspection process. Our<br />
Inspector General (IG) is the Gatekeeper for all<br />
inspections, assessments, and staff assistance<br />
visits in the command.<br />
We transformed our inspection methodology<br />
last fall via an AFMC <strong>Inspection</strong> CONOPS.<br />
Beginning in January 2011, we combined our<br />
IG led Compliance <strong>Inspection</strong>s and A4 Logistics<br />
Compliance Assessment Program (LCAP) and<br />
synchronized our inspection schedule. We<br />
now have one inspection footprint, a single<br />
notification process, and one finding resolution<br />
process while remaining compliant with AFI<br />
90-201, Inspector General Activities, and AFI<br />
20-111, Logistics Compliance Assessment<br />
Program.<br />
To date, we have conducted integrated<br />
inspections of the: <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Research<br />
Laboratory at Rome, NY; munitions<br />
maintenance at Vandenberg; weapons storage<br />
area at Whiteman; and the Aeronautical<br />
Systems Center and 88 <strong>Air</strong> Base Wing at<br />
Wright-Patterson. So far, we have reduced total<br />
TDY costs by 14 percent and given back unit<br />
commanders 20 percent more whitespace.<br />
We’re now taking the next logical step;<br />
realigning our LCAP under the IG as it was<br />
Col. Thomas A. Schneider<br />
HQ AFMC Inspector General<br />
Wright-Patterson AFB<br />
AFMC has made efforts to<br />
consolidate and synchronize<br />
inspections.<br />
20 Summer 2011<br />
U.S. <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> photo by Scott Ash<br />
originally established in 1999, when it was<br />
known as the Maintenance Standardization<br />
and Evaluation Program. This will allow<br />
us to fully integrate, cross-utilize skill sets,<br />
and reduce total core team size from 95 to<br />
68. Realignment will free up 27 inspector<br />
positions for other AFMC priorities while more<br />
effectively and efficiently accomplishing the<br />
inspection mission. We published a CONOPS to<br />
assure the integrity of both inspection types, to<br />
include AFMC/A4 retaining technical oversight<br />
and ensuring requirements of AFI 20-111<br />
continue to be met.<br />
Lastly, I think in this era of efficiencies,<br />
we have room to do even<br />
better. We can gain even<br />
more efficiency by examining<br />
disconnects between AFI<br />
90-201 and AFI 20-111<br />
regarding an agreement on<br />
common terms, categories of findings, grading,<br />
frequency of inspections, and standardization<br />
of IT systems for housing checklists, reports,<br />
and data storage. Going forward, AFMC/IG<br />
is committed to partner with the inspection<br />
community to realize all inspection efficiencies.<br />
The <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, and Secretary of<br />
the <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong>, Michael B. Donley, led the four-star session of CORONA<br />
Top back in June 2009 at Wright-Patterson <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Base, Ohio. This<br />
was the fifth successive year CORONA Top had been hosted at Wright-<br />
Patterson.