At the core of every maintenance action is a maintainer’s determination to keep the Air Force’s fleet of aircraft mission-ready.During periods where mission generation needs exceed local maintenance capabilities, backshops have historically relied on informal contacts and processes to increase capacity. Repair Network Integration, however, offers a single point of contact to help maintenance backshops explore all available supply and repair options to find an optimum solution.RNI is a process-focused initiative to develop an enterprise-wide view of select off-equipment repair capability and provide integrated, agile support to the warfighter. RNI’s primary goal is to design repair networks and synchronize with the Air Force supply chain to better support and respond to mission generation needs.This cooperative supply-maintenance relationship will enable an enterprise approach to repair, rather than leaving intermediate level and depot maintenance units to repair in isolation.In coordination with major commands, Air National Guard, Air Force Sustainment Center and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center subject experts, the RNI team at Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command established specific repair networks to manage production across intermediate-level repair units such as backshops, centralized repair facilities, and potentially depots in the future.
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