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Report Center| CCAD AS9110 Certification |
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - Corpus Christi Army Depot
AS9110 improves upon the depot’s certification last October to the AS9100 standard for aerospace industry Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) by adding specific requirements for organizations that perform MRO functions. The standard is based on the ISO 9001:2000 standard yet boasts 100 additional requirements specific to the aerospace industry. CCAD has been certified to ISO 9001:2000 since Oct. 2005. “In my three years as Commander of this depot, there hasn’t been one thing the Army has asked CCAD to do that the workforce hasn’t stepped up to the plate, accepted the challenge and excelled far beyond what anyone thought was possible,” said COL Timothy Sassenrath.
Certification to AS9110 has tri-fold significance for the men and women of CCAD, said Sassenrath. First and foremost it continues to confirm CCAD is providing its most significant customer-the Joint Services Warfighter- with the best quality aircraft and aircraft component parts imaginable. Secondly, by achieving certification to industry heralded standards such as AS9110, AS9100 and ISO 9001:2000, CCAD continues to secure its position and workload within the Department of Defense. “The third reason certifications like AS9110 are so imperative for the depot is that once the Global War on Terrorism begins to subside and our DoD workload begins to slow, as it has historically after a time of War, because of these certifications and more importantly what they signify, CCAD will be in the position to offset any lost DoD workload with additional workload from our private industry partners like Boeing and Sikorsky,” said Sassenrath. Corpus Christi Army Depot ensures aviation readiness for all service and foreign military sales programs. CCAD is currently the largest facility of its type in the world and serves as a depot training base for active duty Army, National Guard, Reserve and foreign military personnel. In August 2001, CCAD was designated a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for rotary wing aircraft (less avionics). CCAD’s depot field teams provide worldwide on-site maintenance services for units around the world, saving a considerable amount of time and money by repairing aircraft engines and components on site rather than having them transported to/from the depot for repair. CCAD provides overhaul, repair, modification, recapitalization, retrofit, testing and modernization of helicopters, engines and components for all service and foreign military sales. Our analytical investigation and chemical material process facilities provide aircraft crash analysis and oil and metallurgical analysis, respectively. CCAD’s two blade balance stands have the capability of balancing H-60, AH-1 and CH-47 rotor blades.
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Corpus Christi Army Depot is the first military facility in the world to be certified to the AS9110 standard for aerospace industry Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facilities. CCAD is one of only five organizations in the world to be certified to the coveted standard.