Theater Logistician Maj. Gen. Kenneth S. Dowd - KMI Media Group

INDUSTRY INTERVIEW MILITARY LOGISTICS FORUM
Katell Thielemann is the director of
platform logistics for Honeywell Technology
Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
Honeywell International.
Q: Tell me a little about Honeywell Technology
Solutions’ background and the relationship
with the Department of Defense.
A: Honeywell is a $37 billion, diversified and
global technology and services leader. The
company is widely recognized as a defense
industry standard for its comprehensive life
cycle management programs and performance-based
logistics. We have partnered
with DoD and across the military services
for over 50 years. Around the world and
across the military services, Honeywell people
and technologies are supporting DoD to be
mission-ready.
Q: What are some examples of how you have
partnered with DoD?
A: The company has many successful partnerships
across service branches, platforms
and depots. For over 20 years, Honeywell has
served the Marine Corps to manage more
than $3 billion in mission-critical assets.
These logistics services support the Maritime
Prepositioning Ships Program, the Marine
Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway and
operational logistics support to engaged
Marine Corps and DoD operating forces.
In other programs, Honeywell is helping
the Air Force efficiently manage and service
the B-2, C-130 and ground power equipment
fleets at Ogden Air Logistics Center. It also
supports the Army to produce durability and
reliability improvements on critical systems
such as the M1A1, and the CH-47, UH-60
and AH-64. Honeywell provides total package
fielding for virtually every tactical vehicle in
the Army’s fleet, and supports over $53 billion
in property books for the DoD. With over 500
dedicated employees deployed in Iraq, Kuwait
and Afghanistan, we help keep soldiers supplied
and equipment running.
Q: What does Honeywell see in trends for
public/private partnerships in logistics?
A: The trend for public/private partnerships
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Katell Thielemann
Director of Platform Logistics
Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.
in defense logistics is accelerating upward.
These partnerships clearly boost readiness
with services for revitalization, pre-positioning
and materiel and depot management. At
depots in theater and in country, companies
such as Honeywell are creating a new paradigm
for how civilian companies can extend
our military’s reach and effectiveness. Meeting
the challenges facing modern defense organizations
is a team effort. At depots like those
at Anniston and Ogden, Honeywell partnerships
are improving asset performance while
reducing operational costs.
Q: Is there a Honeywell success model for
logistics programs?
A: Partnering with Honeywell has been demonstrated
to provide a path for extending
asset service life, and increasing availability
for mission-critical components. Over
the last 10 years, multiple branches of the
military have recognized tremendous challenges
with declining material availability
rates, declining component availability, and
growing obsolescence. Our defense logistics
programs address these challenges through
supply chain and inventory management
standardization, increased demand planning
and asset visibility, condition-based equipment
maintenance, field service engineering,
and pre-positioning logistics.
The Honeywell Operating System [HOS]
is a comprehensive, integrated business
approach to drive sustained exceptional performance
in safety, quality, cost, inventory,
delivery and supply chain responsiveness.
HOS combines our Six Sigma and Lean
culture with our velocity product development
techniques, and is geared toward fixing
processes, standardizing work, speeding
operational performance, and producing big
improvements in quality and delivery.
Honeywell’s Defense Logistics and Services
operating tempo is tremendous. It proceeds
from a systems and life cycle management
perspective. It integrates and standardizes
processes, uses advanced repair technologies,
and defines success in pre-defined outcomes.
The goal is to extend service life of missioncritical
assets through Honeywell’s Mission
Ready deployment model. In a successfully
integrated logistics program, Honeywell’s
logistics and services support model can
compound value in support, readiness, operations
and cost.
Honeywell’s Mission Ready logistics and
services support model includes OEM-quality
parts, Honeywell Operating System processes,
predictive and condition-based maintenance
technologies, supply chain standardization,
and personnel commitment to shared
common goals. Our experience is that this
model, implemented through partnerships,
extends service life for critical assets, reduces
maintenance costs, and produces savings
with improved asset availability and on-time,
direct-to-destination deliveries.
Q: What new programs are you working
on in partnership with DoD?
A: Honeywell is in a position to bring a
breadth of service offerings. Today’s aging
fleets, frequent missions and harsh environments
create a complex support challenge,
and we have responded. Acquisitions
of Dimensions International Inc. and Intelligent
Automation Corp. have strengthened
our global footprint; and our capabilities in
expeditionary logistics and condition-based
maintenance are now expanded—enabling
greater operational savings.
As I mentioned, we already have multiple
strong and successful partnerships with a
number of military depots. We are expanding
these relationships to create more value
for our customers. Honeywell has multiple
commercially proven solutions that we can
leverage in support of improved efficiencies
and technology insertions. These provide
improved safety, energy savings, asset maintenance
or management cost savings. In an
environment as dynamic and essential as the
security of our nation and our allies, the challenges
are many; but these can be overcome
through close collaboration between DoD
and industry leaders like Honeywell.
katell.thielemann@honeywell.com
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