Marines held first fleet management program quarterly review

The Marine Corps recently held its first quarterly review of the fleet management program, which is a way to look at equipment across the program executive office for land systems portfolio.

William Taylor, PEO land systems said, May 10 during the Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference in Reston, VA, his office is in the "crawl" phase of the program.

"We've agreed to the initial metrics set, we've been collecting data . . . and we'll see where it goes from here, the effort looks promising," he said.

Each program office has a representative on the council and Taylor is the chair, Marine Corps spokesman Manny Pacheco told Inside the Navy May 11.

The council allows the Marine Corps to look for common solutions for problems that may be occurring to more than one vehicle. For example, the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement and the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle may booth have faulty ballistic glass. Instead of each program manager resolving the issue separately the council allows for collaboration, Pacheco said.

Potential investment areas for industry include ballistic glass solutions, fuel efficiency initiatives and lightweight material solutions, Taylor said.