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Request for Bids for Tinker and the Primes 2011 Event Services
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Event Management RFB 2011 2-12-11
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Thanks for your interest in Tinker and the Primes 2011.
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Director, Tinker and the Primes National Business Event
Director of Economic Development
Midwest City Chamber of Commerce
Tinker AFB Releases Hiring Plan for 2011-2012
Please follow the link below to view the Tinker AFB Hiring Plan.
Tinker AFB Hiring forecast booklet 1-18-2011
More Work, More People at Tinker’s 76th AMG
KC-135s getting back to the field faster By Jill Laster, Staff writer Air Force Times 10/2/2010
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State’s Aerospace Industry Faring Well
OK AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
Official: State’s aerospace industry faring well By April Wilkerson The Journal Record 9/14/2010
OKLAHOMA CITY – Almost a decade ago, a vision for the former General Motors plant began taking shape.
Today, that goal is far along the path to reality, as the Tinker Aerospace Complex is making good use of the former automobile manufacturing facility south of the Tinker base.
The aerospace complex, along with commercial advances like Boeing moving the modernization work for two of its weapons systems to Oklahoma City, are among the recent highlights in Oklahoma’s growing aerospace industry.
To observe National Aerospace Week this week, several aerospace leaders talked about the advancements and challenges for the industry in Oklahoma.
But perhaps most telling is what Oklahoma’s aerospace industry hasn’t had to do in recent years. Victor Bird, director of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, said that Wichita, as a leading aviation center, lost 16,000 aviation workers to layoffs last year. During the same time, Oklahoma had net job growth, including 1,200 new hires at Tinker and 400 at Spirit AeroSystems in Tulsa.
“We had a good year,” Bird said. “Why? We do something very different than what Wichita does – we maintain aircraft.”
Bird also touted a decade’s worth of state support for the aerospace industry, including the 2008 Aerospace Industry Engineer Workforce Bill, which the Legislature placed a moratorium on last session. In 2009, 348 newly hired engineers claimed a tax credit of up to $5,000 per year for five years, which was also available to the companies that hired them, unless they were a public employer like Tinker and the Federal Aviation Administration.
“The 348 hired cost the state $3.55 million in tax credits,” Bird said.
“The economic impact of those 348 engineers is $261 million. That’s based on a Department of Commerce study we did. So I’d say that’s a pretty good return on investment.
“Those tax credits are now on hold,” he said, “but we’ll get them back.”
Bird also noted the importance of STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math) to prepare more young people for engineering careers and to add more people to the dangerously low work force pipeline.
Col. Evan Miller, vice commander of the 76th Maintenance Wing at Tinker, said the ongoing renovation of the former GM plant – called Building 9001 and the newest addition to the Tinker Aerospace Complex –continues saving money and making processes more efficient.
So far, with the county’s help, the Air Force has pulled out 18,000 tons of old, outdated equipment to make way for the engine maintenance, repair and overhaul equipment, as well as the commodities area, which includes overhaul of flight controls, local manufacturing and other capabilities.
“As one of my former peers used to call it, an airplane is really just a couple of thousand commodities flying in close formation,” Miller said.
The GM plant is ideal for maintenance, repair and overhaul because it has wide aisles and ample air supply and power supply, he said. The Air Force has put a fence around it, built roads and added a copper and fiber backbone for communications.
The TF-33 engine shop was the first to move in last July, Miller said, followed closely by the Defense Logistics Agency and the sheet metal repair shops.
“In the first three months, we were able to produce about 27 engines out of the facility,” he said.
Today, as fiscal year 2010 is coming to a close, 93 TF-33 engines have been produced (they power the E-3 AWACS and others), along with 24 F-110 engines, which power front-line Air Force fighters, and six B-2 engines.
In addition, Miller said, the commodities maintenance group has put in about 700,000 hours to produce 5,300 repairable components.
Next year, Tinker will finish the move of its KC-135 engine shop and other fabrication and machine shops to Building 9001, and in the next three to four years it will add the capacity for maintenance, repair and overhaul software, a move to stay abreast with growing technology in the military, Miller said. By the time the building is fully occupied, 2,800 people will work there.
“It’s given us the opportunity across the entire Tinker Aerospace Complex to transform our business processes and our shop floors throughout the other parts of the base,” he said. “It’s also enabled us to demolish some old facilities, making space for some new things, and avoiding about $298 million worth of military construction projects that are no longer needed.”
Tinker Air Force Base: Economic and Future Impact
Tinker Air Force Base: Economic and Future Impact By Alex Davis KSBI News 9/13/2010
In keeping with the theme of national aerospace week, public and private sector leaders discussed the importance of partnerships between air industry leaders.
Colonel Lawrence Gatti of the United States Air Force says Tinker Air Force Base plays a unique part in helping supprt the greater Oklahoma City area and the centralized air industry hub.
Officials estimate the base generates about $3 billion dollars annually, which directly impacts the city and residents.
“I can believe that the impact is large, not to mention the associations, contractors, and vendors that we attract because of the aircraft industry that we support,” said Gatti.
Gatti says the former GM Plant also known as Building 9001 is evidence of the working relationship civilians’ share with the base, as a number of the workers stationed to the building are civilains.
The complex is the new site for a machine and fabrication shop and could soon house a new software maintenance shop. Officials say keeping up with the wave of technology is essential for war fighting efforts, and that the new building helps that push.
Officials predict the building will host nearly three thousand employees upon completion next year.
Click on the following link to watch the report from the KSBI-TV news cast:
http://www.ksbitv.com/news/Tinker-Airforce-Base-Economic-and-Future-Impact-102815824.html
The Economy Is Like John Wayne Airport
If you have flown out of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif., you have experienced that unsettled feeling in the pit of your stomach when the pilot cuts the engine power for a few moments in order to minimize noise in the densely populated neighborhoods below. Sometimes the pilot doesn’t warn you ahead of time, which makes it worse because you’re not expecting it.
The economy has just given us the same experience – worse, in fact. As it was gaining speed after lifting out of the recession, the economy lost momentum over the summer due to a combination of factors: financial turmoil in Europe, the waning effects of the stimulus, a decline in inventory restocking, and a prolonged lack of confidence by households and businesses. While the economy continues to fight for momentum, there are signs that somebody turned the power back on. Jobless claims fell sharply last week, the trade deficit narrowed in July thanks in part to a surge in exports, and the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book survey reported that the economy continued to expand through August despite the deceleration earlier in the summer.
Clearly the economy is not recovering as fast as we would all like to see, but it continues to move forward.
Have a great weekend.
Best regards,
Bob
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1,000 Aerospace Workers Will Be Needed According to Tinker Official
Tinker employees fill former GM plant
Use of building increasing workload and efficiency
Read more: http://www.newsok.com/article/3487516?searched=9001&custom_click=search#ixzz0xcv4FIrh
August was a cruel month for Shawn Garrison‘s commodities maintenance crew before they moved to the former General Motors plant that now is part of the Tinker Aerospace Complex.
Their former location — a glass-paneled building dating to World War II — lacked air conditioning and became unbearable in high temperatures. Mechanics would take breaks every 15 minutes to cool off.
Now the civilian crew works in the cool, brightly-lit former automotive plant.
Read more: http://www.newsok.com/article/3487516?searched=9001&custom_click=search#ixzz0xcvVnzbrThe Air Force has spent $80 million over the past two years to renovate and equip the 3.8 million-square-foot structure that was adjacent to base, but now is within the secured perimeter. Workers started moving in about a year ago.
“It’s a lot cleaner facility,” said Garrison, a first line supervisor for the 551st Commodities Maintenance Squadron. “We’ve got a bigger work area.”
His crew overhauls side cowls on the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System. Because of the efficiency of their new space, orders now take less than half the time to process.
About 30 percent of the former plant, now called Building 9001, is occupied — with plans to fill it to about 80 percent and lease the rest. Employees with 20 or more years of experience are asked to help design the work spaces.
About 700 people work there now, but more work is being transitioned to the site. The new space will allow the Air Force to demolish 23 outdated buildings and free up space in the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center‘s headquarters building, a huge former Douglas airplane plant being redesigned to maximize work flow.
After GM closed the plant in 2006, Oklahoma County voters approved a $55 million bond issue to buy the property and lease it back to the Air Force for $1 a year.
“I really think that a lot of credit has to be given to visionary leaders we have in the community,” said Brig. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, who leads the 76th Maintenance Wing. “That was a risk of that much money to allow that facility to come for our use.
“The transition of that building has been remarkable,” he said. “What we have today is a first-class facility to match the first-class work force we have here.”
The 76th Maintenance Wing has about 9,000 civilian employees. The wing has hired about 850 workers in the last year and plans to hire another 1,000 next fiscal year. About half of those are to counter work force attrition. Many Tinker workers are nearing retirement age.
Some new hires are former GM workers. Litchfield said he doesn’t know how many but the job skills that autoworkers hold are a good fit for aircraft work.
Meanwhile, the base’s workload is increasing with troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and many of the military’s aircraft age.
“Our job is to make sure that when they come in for maintenance — and it’s very extensive maintenance, it’s rebuilding from the ground up — that they go out combat ready,” Litchfield said.
Robin Roberts Krieger, vice president of economic development for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, said the reuse of the plant helped Oklahoma weather the recession. It’s proximity to Tinker was key.
Without Tinker, “it would be very difficult to say if we’d have anything in there given the economy,” she said.
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