The Joint Council on Aging Aircraft (JCAA) exists to coordinate the efforts of DoD Services andGovernment agencies in optimizing the service life of our aging aircraft fleets, to maximize aircraft material safety, to minimize aircraft operating costs and duplication of effort, and to sponsor and conduct exchanges of information on these efforts. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics has charged the JCAA to be the DoD focal point for addressing aging aircraft issues, with development of consolidated requirements and a strategy prioritized roadmap, and investment plan for satisfying them. The JCAA has been organized operationally into 5 major steering groups of Subject Matter Experts, and these steering groups have conducted extensive bottoms-up analyses, reviewed reports and data (See Appendix B) resulting in concentration of effort across a tightly organized spectrum of projects of priority impact and interest to the services and agencies. These projects are arranged within 12 major strategic themes and are the thrust of this National Strategy.
