Exercise Pitch Black takes to the skies in the Top End

AIR F RCE August 2, 2012
Air Force Improvement
Finding right fit for job
Eamon Hamilton
AIR Lift Group’s (ALG’s) Air
Mobility Control Centre (AMCC) is
maximising the use of its platforms by
ransitioning from a ‘platform-based’
cheduling approach to an ‘effectsbased’
outcome for meeting tasking
requirements.
Acting Director of AMCC
GCDR James Hogg said instead of
ustomers requesting a specific aircraft
ype, a request for an effect would be
made to the AMCC.
“We will then, in turn, determine
the most effective and efficient means
to satisfy the user’s requirement,” he
said.
WGCDR Ken Roberts, of the Air
Mobility Improvement Program, said
his team was working closely with the
AMCC on how it would coordinate the
ALG fleet into the future.
“AMCC is akin to advanced
problem solving, where there is
finite amount of aircraft and capacity
to meet a customer’s requirement
to reach their destination by a certain
date,” WGCDR Roberts said.
“We’re aiming to achieve a force
multiplier effect so that we can better
utilise our assets.
“AMCC staff have been engaged
and are actively committed to this
reform – they will see the results
played out before them as this organiation
owns this process.”
With the introduction of C-17A,
C-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport,
nd C-27J Spartan aircraft, the ongo-
ing success of AMCC will require
improvements within its own organisation
and planning to meet tasking
requirements.
“When the KC-30A declares initial
operational capability later this year,
the AMCC is expecting a 50 per cent
increase in its tasking capacity alone
for that platform,” WGCDR Roberts
said.
He said to meet future demands,
AMCC was process-mapping its business
and consulting with its primary
customers to determine user requirements.
That includes the Air and Space
Operations Centre, Joint Movements
Group, Army and Headquarters Air
Command.
“Educating AMCC’s customers
will lead to improvements,” WGCDR
Roberts said. “If a customer books a
C-17A and only 50 per cent of people
show up to be moved, then this task
could have been met with a C-130 aircraft.
“We will place more emphasis on
the Air Load Coordination section in
the early planning phases instead of f
in the final planning phases to help p
accomplish this.”
Straightforward fixes, like review-
ing standing instructions and rational-
ising of forms used by AMCC to book k
services to request air mobility, are e
also being carried out.
The result will be the streamlining of f
AMCC’s work processes so it can sup-
port aircraft which are larger and more e
capable than their predecessors.
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EFFECTIVE E
PLATFORM: Under a new scheduling approach, the
AMCC A will determine what aircraft type customers need based on
their t requirements. For example, if a C-17A was booked to transfer
troops t to an exercise, but only half the troops showed up on the day,
a C-130 would have been the more appropriate choice of transport.
Pictured P above are Army troops being loaded on to a C-17A at RAAF
Base B Townsville, and left, members working in the Air Mobility Control
Centre C
at RAAF Base Richmond. Above photo: LAC Michael Green
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