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Management examines partnering agreements at LRMOA meeting

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  • By Kendahl Johnson
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ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --  In an effort to review and coordinate long range partnering agreements, members from Team Robins and representatives from various partners met here Wednesday for a day of briefings. 

The meeting was the biannual Long Range Memorandum of Agreement, or LRMOA, partnering review. Those who meet discuss ways to improve sustainment support, strengthen relationships with partners, and meet Air Force core logistics competencies. The primary objective of the review is to determine how to best provide "superior and reliable" support to the warfighter. 

Col. Robert Stambaugh, vice commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, chaired the gathering. He was joined by representatives from the 116th Air Control Wing, the 402nd Maintenance Wing, Joint STARS system program managers from here and Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., and Northrop-Grumman Corporation. 

Col. Brian Searcy, vice commander of the 116th ACW, said war efforts are increasing in the Central Command AOR, and the need to increase aircraft capability is becoming even more urgent. 

"We need to maximize aircraft capability, both here at Robins and in forward operating locations so we can continue to do our mission," he said. "That's our challenge. We need to all work together as a team to make that happen." 

The LRMOA Charter was established in 2000, and says senior management representatives will meet twice a year. There have been 12 conferences since 2001. The next meeting will be in February 2010.