Certainly commonality is not the final and only answer to cost savings. Given the current national defense priorities and a request by the President of $583 billion for defense in Fiscal Year 2017, ...

Naval Sea Systems Command completed a fleet-wide fastener study, identifying and recommending the removal of thousands of fasteners from the Navy supply system. The 16-week supply system review ...

Bob Blaisdell’s “The Day I Lost It in Front of My Students” (Community Colleges, October 26) is superb. What the students saw that day is what they rarely see in a classroom: commonality with the ...

Citing fleet commonality and aircraft performance, Southwest Airlines selected the 737 Max over the A320neo, said the airline's technical and operations leaders. "When you looked at the way we fly, ...