Command personnel have also repaired over 43,000 aviation components.
FRCSW's innovative management technologies, including AIRSpeed, achieved cost and schedule reductions that provided extraordinary value and readiness. The F/A-18 Hornet program conducts Planned Maintenance Interval PMI-1 and PMI-2 and is the largest production line in the command. The Special Rework/Crash Damage team is renowned for their ability to fix aircraft that are damaged beyond ordinary repair, and during the past five years has returned more than 40 F/A-18 A-D models to the fleet for less than the cost of one F/A-18E Super Hornet.
FRCSW is the Navy's lead facility performing overhaul, repair, modification and center barrel replacement (a unique capability designed, engineered and built here by the command) for the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet. This process is just a part of the production, engineering and logistical efforts being used to extend the life of the aircraft and save taxpayers money.
The In-Service Support Center (ISSC) provides engineering and logistics expertise which includes the Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and High Flight Hour (HFH) initiatives to enhance readiness of aging aircraft such as the F/A-18. The center operates the Navy Primary Standards Laboratory, providing calibration services worldwide, second only to those of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Materials Engineering Laboratory provides a variety of services with its expertise in materials technologies, and has the Navy's only aircraft tire engineering and laser testing capability.
The component program boasted repair capabilities to more than 11,000 unique components used on Navy and Marine frontline aircraft. During FY2014, the command produced over 43,000 components in support of fleet requirements. These included common avionics, hydraulic, control surfaces and support equipment.
FRCSW is the sole service site repair center for the LM2500 turbine engine that powers the Spruance, Arleigh-Burke, Aegis and Perry class surface ships. FRCSW rebuilt and returned 16 LM2500 engines to the Fleet in FY 2014.
The command's Field Service staff provides rapid-response, on-site depot-level repair and modification of squadron aircraft anywhere in the world whether ashore or at sea. During 2014, Field Service responded to 2,448 requests for maintenance assistance from squadrons, including jobs underway on all Navy aircraft carriers.
FRCSW's Voyage Repair Team (VRT) overhauls aircraft catapult and arresting gear systems on all Pacific Fleet carriers and maintains aircraft and ship aviation support systems on all Pacific Fleet aviation-capable ships. In FY2013, VRT completed significant work on all 5 carriers based on the west coast as well as USS George Washington (CVN-73) based in Japan.
FY 2014 saw the command's mobile facilities program (MOFAC) refurbish 43 vans for use around the globe. For more than 40 years the Navy and Marine Corps have used the versatile steel-framed units for infrastructure and maintenance support operations.
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