Goals and Initiatives

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The Kitty Hawk Aeronautics 2007-2010 Strategic Plan includes the following goals:

  • Increase profit by at least 7% per year

  • Establish a customer base in Asia/Europe for the Commercial Aviation line of business

  • Establish a "General Aviation Systems" line of business

  • Control costs by establishing activity based cost accounting in all lines of business

  • Improve the value of investments in information technology

 

The current strategic-level initiatives that fit the strategic goals in each of the LOBs are as follows:

 

Increase Profitability

  • Reduce average warehouse handling time by 10% per year

  • Minimize spending on research and development by 10% per year

  • Sell non-profitable Line of Business

  • Create competitive advantages through innovation and investigative research driven by customer requirements.

  • Ensure all LOBs are operating at optimum levels (within their area of expertise) and are proficient with their product lines and services.

Commercial Aviation

  • Open a Sales & Marketing European branches in London, Paris and Frankfurt

  • Open a Sales & Marketing Asian branches in Bangalore, Beijing and Singapore

  • Start on product promotion campaign in Asia and Europe in July 2008

  • Sell after-market electronic assemblies and parts for airline fleets in Europe and Asia.

General Aviation Systems

  • Roll-out a new commercial component manufacturing plant in San Diego, California (200 new employees).

  • Expand avionics product line to include Boeing MD-80.

  • Improve electrical harness product line quality and cost competitiveness.

Control Cost

  • Establish an enterprise-wide cost accounting system and migrate from separate legacy finance, payroll, and general ledger accounting systems.

  • Integrate financial information with sales and warehouse data, and establish access controlled data marts that push pre-formatted reports daily.

  • Implement a performance-based contracting approach that uses standard on-line templates and a document tracking/correspondence control system

  • Integrate contracting information with finance and accounting information.

Investment in Information Technology

  • Establish and maintain an enterprise architecture program and on-line repository of actionable EA information.

  • Establish an IT capital planning program to improve the value of investments in IT.

  • Expand the IT Common Operating Environment (IT-COE) to host all front-office and back-office applications at each company location, and expand LAN/WAN capabilities.

  • Develop and implement a follow-on IT Security solution for the IT-COE.

  • Establish a Knowledge Warehouse for the KHA enterprise.

The following LOBs are on-going programs and other measures that are not aligned with current strategic-level initiatives:

 

Defense Systems

  • Deliver the MH53J Pave-Low IV Tactical Communications Radio for the USAF.

  • Deliver FA-18 Block-III VHF radios to Naval Aviation Systems Command.

  • Support Northrop Grumman outfitting of USCG Deepwater Cutter UHF/VHF radios.

Space Systems

  • Deliver the recently-awarded USAF Ultra-Low-Latency Satellite Communications System, and migrate functionality and data from the legacy USAF GeoTalk System.

  • In partnership with the Jet Propulsion Lab, develop the telemetry system for the Mars Lander IV Program.

  • Support Raytheon as subcontractor in delivering the Challenge Athena III Wideband Satellite Communication System.

Research and Development

  • As a subcontractor to Boeing, support research and development activities for the Next

  • Generation Space Shuttle Avionics Program (NGSSAP).

  • Develop multi-function electronics busses for the Boeing Dreamliner.

 Shipping and Receiving

  • Expand the Warehouse and Shipping Department at the San Diego facility.

Contacts and Legal

  • Upgrade legacy Lexus/Nexus on-line legal library system, make available in San Diego.

 
 

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