Military and commercial operators are faced with the problem practically every day: they have a maintenance or support project that requires highly skilled maintenance technicians, but the scope of the work can't justify the hiring of additional full-time employees. As more and more government and commercial operators are discovering, the solution may be found in a contract maintenance arrangement. L-3 Vertex Aerospace, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications's Integrated Systems division, supplies contract personnel to the U.S. military, government, andcommercial operations around the world. As Dave Carothers, L-3's Contract Field Services general manager explained, the CFS program is really a series of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts. Under these contracts, the company operates the contract field teams contract (CFT), and that's where most all the work gets done.
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