LES has been awarded a significant contract by the Air 7000 Ph2B Project Office to deliver the new Maritime Patrol and Response Aircraft capability Logistics Support Analysis Records (LSAR) that complies with DEF (AUST) 5692, population of the Authority to Fit (ATF) system (ADAASS) and seeding of Computer Aided Maintenance Management (CAMM2) (LSAR and Asset Data). The WSDBs will also be used to produce Authorised Maintenance Data (AMD), including Technical Maintenance Plans (TMPs) and Planned Servicing Schedules (PSS).

LES has been awarded an initial contract with DMS Maritime to review and update a number of Standard Activities related to the support of the Armidale Class Patrol Boat. This initial task had a demanding schedule to allow support for other project activities. LES was able to allocate significant resources to complete the task ahead of schedule and we now look forward to further supporting DMS in the review and update of other technical documentation.

AGAP has expanded its use of eMRD and become the first customer of the eLSA application. This combined package of software allows AGAP to apply all of the functionality required by DEF(AUST)5692 to fulfil their contractual obligations. For further information on our software products, go to LES Software.

Since September 2011 LES has been providing support to the Airbus Group Australia Pacific (AGAP) C130J Planned Servicing Improvement Project (PSSR). The project successes have been widely reported in the media and AGAP continue to make improvements that are designed to improve availability and maintainability of the aircraft. LES support to AGAP has again been extended till June 2015 and recognises the effort and excellent working relationship between the two companies.

LES has been contract by the Holmwood Highgate Group to develop ILS deliverables for the bulk fuel and water modules being procured under the Land 121 Phase 3B project. Deliverables include, Integrated Support Plan, Logistic Support Analysis Plan, LORA, technical documentation, sparing and provisioning lists.

LES have been contracted to BAE Systems to provide 2 Logistic Analysts to identify maintenance requirements of the LHD deck equipment such as tow motors, cranes and deck sweepers. This task was completed ahead of schedule which enabled the analysts to complete additional analysis on medical equipment.

Australian Aerospace (now Airbus Helicopters) identified excessive CAMM2 transactions during removal and installation of Main and Tail Rotor components. Australian Aerospace contracted LES to restructure the Main and Tail Rotor PLCN’s to represent a CAMM2 friendly structure that significantly reduced the number of CAMM2 transactions. The task commenced in late 2014 and was completed in January 2015 where LES completed the PLCN restructure utilising its proprietary eMRD software to effect, record and track changes to the PLCN structure. The supporting eMRD Companion software was also used to validate the changes to the WSDB by providing ‘Before’ and ‘After’ views of the ARH WSDB.

With the re-release of the RFT for the Lightweight Automatic Grenade Launcher under LAND 40-2, NIOA Defence has again called on the services of LES for tender support. This time LES provided the Bid Manager responsible for the management and submission of the tender response. A very robust Tender was submitted and Nioa and LES are confident of the result as we wait for the evaluation and subsequent announcement to be made.

The LES contract with ATOS Australia has been extended for a third time until Jun 2015. LES has been supporting the ATOS contract with the Commonwealth for the CMT-L release 4 rollout which has now transitioned to the support contract.

RAMSPO and GTESPO have joined the growing number of System Program Offices to employ the LES eMRD software application. eMRD has been chosen to increase productivity, reduce learning time and operator induced errors.

LES have successfully tendered for a DMOSS task to provide Logistic Support Analysis (LSA) training. The primary aim of this training is to provide an underpinning knowledge of the management planning and estimation of the LSA activities for the Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Manager and other personnel within LSD. A secondary aim is to promote best practice in the application of LSA principles within the ILS domain to ensure the delivery of capability and cost optimised Materiel Systems for Land Capabilities.

The LES developed specialist software eMRD has a number of new customers including RAMSPO and GTESPO with two other potential users expected by the end of June 14. The eMRD application continues to receive positive feedback as to the cost savings it provides and the clarity and accuracy of the data. eMRD is soon to be joined by a new sister application eLSA which will fill in the gaps between eMRD and DEF(AUST)5692. Keep an eye on the LES blog site at www.les.net.au/less/ for news of its release.

LES have been successful in tendering for the delivery of a Weapon System Database (WSDB) Verification and Validation (V&V) Tool for the Aircraft Maintenance Policy Review Team (AMPRT). The tool is to enable the comparison of Maintenance Policy related data manually maintained on worksheets to related data contained in the final WSDB produced during the conduct of an Aerospace Maintenance Policy Review Project. This will allow the generation of discrepancy reports that verify that all Planned Servicing Schedule (PSS) tasks, Maintenance Managed Item (MMI) tasks, and Technical Information (TI) changes actioned during an AMPRT review are accurately reflected in the final WSDB.

In January 2013 LES won a contract with ATOS Australia to support the roll out of CMT-L release R4. Since then we have been given two extensions and an additional person to provide configuration trees and at-elbow support to SPO personnel.

After a long period of time Seabox International have been successful in tendering to Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Australia (RMMVA) for the Flatrack module as part of their Land 121 Ph3B project. LES provided support to Seabox during the tendering process and have subsequently been awarded a contract to provide ILS support and products for the Flatrack. Work includes ILS plans, FMECA, LORA, technical documentation and spares analysis.

LES has successfully tendered to create/update tailored Maintenance Requirement Determination (MRD) procedures for Aircraft Maintenance Systems Program Office (AMSPO) product based on Defence MRD policy. The task includes the review of extant policy, targeted MRD activities on selected equipment and the training/knowledge transfer of AMSPO personnel.