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Courtesy USAF/Northrop Grumman
In mid January, Integrated Systems hosted the A-10 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) summit at its structural test facility in El Segundo, Calif. At the time of the summit, Jan. 16-17, testing of an A-10 fuselage and empennage was in progress to support extending the service life of the aircraft to 20,000 flight hours.
In addition to Northrop Grumman personnel, the meeting was attend- ed by representatives from the U.S. Air Force A-10 SPO, Air Combat Command, Air National Guard, Lockheed Martin, and Southwest Research Institute, which represent the larger A-10 ASIP team.
Northrop Grummans A-10 team comprises people from the Eastern Region A-10 Engineering staff in Bethpage, the business management organization from Aviation Products in St. Augustine, and the Western Region structural test organization from El Segundo. Providing support to the team are the corporations Technical Services and Information Technology sectors.
The success of the A-10 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program is a tribute to the One Northrop Grumman approach and to the overall excellence of the A-10 ASIP teams support of the warfighter, said Marguerite Kassinger, A-10 project engineer.
