Ben Van Roo
That’s Boeing, talking about the C-17 Globemaster III, a plane it hasn’t manufactured since 2015 but still sustains under a $23.8 billion performance-based logistics contract. The Air Force doesn’t buy C-17 spare parts. It doesn’t buy repair actions. It buys readiness. The contract specifies a mission capable rate, a cost per flying hour, and maintenance man-hours per flying hour. Boeing figures out how to deliver. If parts last longer, if predictive maintenance catches failures before they happen, Boeing keeps the margin. If readiness drops, Boeing eats the cost.
This arrangement has been running since 1998. The fleet consistently beats its 82.5% mission capable rate target (87%+ and climbing). When the Air Force needed to evacuate 124,000 people from Kabul in a matter of days, the C-17s delivered. That’s not a PowerPoint metric, it’s a real-world stress test of the readiness PBL purchased, and it passed.
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