What does A0 stand for?

The additional order, awarded on February 5, 2013, includes the supply and installation of a tower-mounted Ground Master 406 radar, associated civil engineering, through-life support for three years with guaranteed operational availability of 98%, and information system security for the radar base.

This contract will greatly contribute to achieving the highest levels of operational availability and reliability, especially during the summer months.

Operational availability is the basic readiness requirement item and is the base requirement that all development and system design must be 1.

The ten-year contract is intended to provide the carrier with a stable, predictable maintenance structure which reduces the costs associated with ad-hoc maintenance work and unscheduled airframe grounding while extending the operational availability of the 20-aircraft fleet.

By customers" request a list of items can be stocked in Atlanta at all times, which ensures an operational availability with minimum delivery time.

A readiness improvement analysis was undertaken by a subset of the PSWG; the purpose of determining the application of material parts support to increase operational availability, which in turn would improve the operational availability of the MCM's mission.

This will ensure the operational availability of the 12-strong vehicle fleet during this period.