Typhoon Availability Service

TAS (Typhoon Availability Service) is a partnering arrangement with the UK MoD that aims to deliver best practice support solutions for a critical RAF asset.

As a member of the Eurofighter GmbH consortium we are one of the Original Equipment Manufacturers for the Typhoon aircraft. Our experienced teams work side by side with RAF personnel to deliver aircrew and groundcrew training, maintenance and servicing, technical support, and effective inventory and asset management. We have identified and agreed with the UK MoD budgeted through-life savings of £2.5bn from initial Readiness and Sustainment activities on Typhoon.

Australian Defence Force

BAE Systems is a key provider of Readiness and Sustainment solutions to the Australian Defence Force providing long-term maintenance and modification support for the Royal Australian Air Force’s 71 strong
F/A-18 Hornet fighter fleet.

BAE Systems is partnered with L-3 MAS (Canada) to deliver enhanced deeper maintenance, engineering and modification support leveraging each company’s complementary capabilities. This teaming provides Australia with a credible and cost-effective third party support solution with support options until 2018.

Leveraging its skilled workforce of 350 personnel located at Newcastle Airport, BAE Systems provides innovative and flexible support solutions to deliver improved aircraft availability and enhanced capability outcomes for the RAAF Hornet and Lead-in Fighter fleets. BAE Systems is focused on real solutions and capability outcomes whilst managing the challenges of an ageing Hornet aircraft fleet. The team is committed to delivering enhanced capability at reduced cost.

Defence Integrated Distribution System

In Australia we manage the Defence Integrated Distribution System (DIDS), which provides comprehensive inventory management and logistics services to the Australian Defence Force.

We have operations at 26 Defence sites across Australia where we provide reliable and efficient Warehousing (receipt, issue, despatch, stock-take), Materiel Maintenance (armoured and non-armoured vehicles, principal items, artillery, light weapons, electrical equipment) and Distribution services.

Integrated Vehicle Health Management

Building upon 15 years of extensive experience, we are developing new systems to provide around the clock healthcheck capability for military vehicles.

The new Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) systems join together a chain of maintenance and support modules for military vehicles. IVHM provides operators, mission commanders and maintenance personnel with a constantly updated picture of status and availability of assets. Able to monitor the use of military vehicles, detect faults before they cause damage and avoid unnecessary maintenance, IVHM is already enabling support ranging from the Bradley Fighting Vehicles diagnostics and maintenance systems, to the health management systems of Typhoon.

UK Hawk Integrated Operational Support

BAE Systems is ensuring that the UK's fleet of 131 Hawk TMk1 training aircraft are "available for sorties" for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Air Force (RAF).

The contract with the UK MOD broke new ground with forward operations (i.e. flight line) being directly supported by BAE Systems. The MOD has recognised that contract will generate savings to the UK taxpayer of £18 million compared to previous support arrangements for the Hawk TMk1 fleet.
 
Four Hawk operating bases in the UK, RAF Valley, RAF Leeming, RNAS (Royal Naval Air Station) Culdrose and RNAS Yeovilton, are supported directly by BAE Systems. The support service at these stations provides fleet and supply chain management, forward and depth maintenance, and technical support. In addition, a spares availability service is provided at RAF Scampton to the RAF Aerobatics Team, the Red Arrows, and the MOD's testing and evaluation site.