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U.S. NAVY MPRA<br />
Kurt Muller, Deputy Director, U.S. Navy,<br />
Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance<br />
Aircraft (MPRA) Programs, gave a briefing<br />
updating the U.S. Navy's MPRA operations<br />
worldwide and discussing where the P-3<br />
fits in. The brief began with a breakdown<br />
of the MPRA's organization and command<br />
structure, and an overview of its global<br />
operations.<br />
The main point of Muller's brief was<br />
how to keep the P-3s flying until the P-8A<br />
Poseidon model becomes fully<br />
operational. He asserted that through<br />
funded sustainment programs, mission<br />
systems sustainment programs, and<br />
airframe sustainment programs, as well as<br />
innovative maintenance plans, the U.S.<br />
Navy P-3s and their variants should be able<br />
to remain in service beyond 2020.<br />
The brief also was designed to inform<br />
and advise foreign military service (FMS)<br />
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P-3 operators of U.S. Navy P-3s of<br />
NAVAIR's Transition Management Plan for<br />
out-of inventory (OOI) aircraft. Muller<br />
assured his audience that the OOI plan is<br />
very comprehensive and starts 5 years<br />
prior to the OOI date. The OOI date for<br />
U.S. Navy P-3s is 2019.<br />
Muller concluded his talk by assuring<br />
the FMS community of the U.S, Navy's and<br />
NAVAIR's commitment to P-3s<br />
internationally. He also assured the<br />
audience that they will continue to support<br />
the U.S. Navy P-3s beyond their sundown<br />
in 2020.<br />
BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE<br />
Lieutenant Colonel Paulo Augusto Tricai<br />
Cavalini, of the Brazilian Air Force, gave a<br />
brief on the force's P-3 modernization<br />
program. He began by informing the<br />
audience that the Brazilian Air Force<br />
operates a fleet of twelve P-3s: Nine are to<br />
be modernized under the program, and<br />
three are to be dismantled and used for<br />
spare parts. For those aircraft to be<br />
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