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The second meeting of the newly formed Small Companies Committee (SCC) took place early Nov 09 in attendance was Aspîre Consulting's MD - Peter Stuttard

Aspîre has a new training associate, Alison Partington (AMP Defence Contracting Services), who will be delivering Commercially based workshops at the Aspîre Training Facility in Tamworth.

The Aspîre training team would like to welcome it's new associate Availability, Maintainability and Reliability Instructor Graham Steven.

Aspîre has branched out into the Commercial field with the inclusion of six new Commercial based courses to bolster it's current training portfolio.

Aspîre Consulting Ltd would like to welcome it's new Technical Director Mr Allan Goody.

Aspîre’s Systems and Systems Engineering based approach to Supportability Engineering pays dividends. The focus on achieving enhanced operational effect and reducing Through Life Costs is proving attractive to existing and new clients.

Aspîre will be exhibiting at DSEi from the 8th - 11th September at the ExCeL Centre in London's Docklands - Visit Aspîre in the UK Pavilion on Stand 775.

Aspire has successfully negotiated a contract with Defence Equipment & Support, Chinook Integrated Project Team (DE&S CHIPT) for support of Chinook Maintenance Schedule revision and development.

Aspîre would like to welcome it's new Operations Director Steve Sims.

Award of a major contract with the Submarine production IPT.

2008 - Another very good year for Aspîre.

New Year offer from the Training team.

The Aspîre training team welcome the new Availability, Reliability and Maintainability facilitator David Richards.

Aspîre will be exhibiting at the DVD event at Millbrook, Bedfordshire during the period 25 to 26 June 2008.

An improved counter-mine capability has gone into action in Afghanistan with the help of Aspîre and is saving soldiers lives.

Aspîre has successfully delivered Supportability Engineering courses in Turkey for a major player in the armoured vehicle sector.

Aspîre has delivered new maintenance schedules for the Sea Fury aircraft of the Royal Navy Historic Flight (RNHF). The Sea Fury was the Fleet Air Arm's last piston-engined fighter.

Aspîre has delivered Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) training to Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft fleet manager and technical authoring staff.

Martin Shilston has joined Aspîre from the UK MoDs Equipment and Support Continuous Improvement Team (ESCIT). He brings supply-chain process experience and knowledge to Aspîre.

We have been recognised as meeting the international standard for effective investment in people. The recognition was awarded by the West Midlands Quality Centre.

Aspîre has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BAE SYSTEMS Bofors to undertake the development and management of the Supportability elements of the Abraham Programme.

Vic Steadman has recently joined Aspîre following his retirement from the British Army.

Supportability Engineering training contracts in Sweden and Turkey have been won with defence manufacturers.

Pearsons Engineering Ltd. has contracted Aspîre to conduct Supportability Engineering analysis on the US Marine Corps Assault Breacher Vehicle Programme.

Aspîre is working with the BAE SYSTEMS Astute Project team in conducting an independent review of the Supportability Engineering programme.

Boeing has engaged Aspîre on its Chinook aircraft Support contract. We have conducted a short study into the method to be adopted to move the existing maintenance philosophy to a more efficient, lower cost base without negatively impacting Availability and Safety.

Aspîre's Managing Director (Peter Stuttard) presented a paper on Through Life Costing (TLC) at the Brewing Engineers Association one-day technical seminar 'Developing and Maintaining High Performance'.

Aspîre has won a contract with the Combat Support Equipment Integrated Project Team (CSE IPT) within the UK MoD to provide Through Life Management Plans (TLMPs) on critical equipments.

Aspîre assisted Volvo (Sweden) to identify training requirements to address knowledge and skills shortfalls of plant personnel in the use of corporate software tools.

Aspîre has launched a low-risk military capability sustainment initiative.

Aspîre has re-qualified as an approved UK MoD supplier within the terms of the MoD's Framework Agreement for Technical services (FATS/2).

Aspîre is a member of a team led by Steria, a leading IT services provider, which has been selected by the UK MoD to run the Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC) from January 2008.

Aspîre has recently completed a task that demonstrates the real-benefits achievable by engaging a specialist Small-to-Medium Enterprise(SME) at what they do best.

Aspîre provides training in Supportability Engineering and has recently moved into a dedicated training facility providing an excellent learning environment.

Jason Hall has joined Aspîre from the UK MoD where he presented Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and technical author training and managed several RCM projects in the air environment.