Through its division, Maytag Support Services (MSS), Maytag Aircraft
Corporation has taken its capabilities and sterling military service
record to commercial enterprises ranging from companies with national
and international facilities’ maintenance and management
needs to engineering and IT services as well as airlines and airports
looking to outsource various operations. MSS allows Maytag Aircraft
Corporation to apply its proven outsourcing know-how for the US
Government in the private sector.
MSS prides itself on being able to
access personnel in a real time basis so that ramp-up times are
virtually a non-issue. This capability was perfected through U.S.
military contracting that requires locating both specialized personnel,
like avionic engineers, to hourly wage workers, within 30 days
or less. We know how to mobilize on contracts across the globe,
providing personnel on a permanent, temporary or contract basis.
MSS meets diverse customer needs through
numerous partnering scenarios, including:
• Providing assistance directly to a business or enterprise;
• Serving as a prime contractor charged with fully executing
a business or enterprise contract;
• Working as a subcontractor charged with performing a specific
portion of a prime contract;
• Dealing with various suppliers through outsourcing arrangements.
MSS also relies upon the expertise
of Maytag Aircraft Corporation’s Board of Directors, including
outside directors, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Peter M. Hekman,
Jr., retired U.S. Army Major General Dennis M. Kenneally and former
U.S. Congressman Steve Kuykendall.
Admiral Hekman is
a forty-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, held the Command of the
largest, most complex Material Command in the Department of Defense
at its time: the Naval Sea Systems Command, responsible for the
design, acquisition and life cycle support of all ships, submarines
and craft in the Navy. Admiral Hekman oversaw 100,000 personnel
and a $25 billion annual budget. Other Flag Officer assignments
included: Deputy Commander for Surface Combatants and Aircraft
Carriers, Naval Sea Systems Command; Deputy Director, National
Military Command Center, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff; Command of the Navy’s largest Cruiser Destroyer
Group, among others. He has also served as a member of the Secretary
of the Navy’s Executive Board and as Deputy Assistant CNO
for Navy Research, Development, Test & Evaluation. In civilian
life, he served as a Senior Executive in the US Department of
Energy, as President of Babcock & Wilcox of Ohio, and as Vice
President of SYNTEK Technologies, Inc. Admiral Hekman is a member
and former Chair of the Military Affairs Advisory Committee of
the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. He currently serves
as a board member of the six-state Southwest Defense Alliance.
General Kenneally,
a Vietnam veteran, is the former Commanding General of the California
Army National Guard, the largest, most tasked Army National Guard
force in the nation. He has also served in two Presidential administrations
(as the Associate Administrator of the Veterans Administration
and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force) and currently
serves as a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
State Terrorism and Threat Advisory Group of the Office of Homeland
Security. In civilian life, he was vice president of a large international
multi-service company providing private security and facilities
management services and President & CEO of Center for Technical
Services, Inc.
Congressman Kuykendall
represented California’s 36th Congressional District and
served on the Armed Services, Science and Transportation &
Infrastructure Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives.
He also served in the California State Assembly and as the Mayor
and Councilman for the city of Rancho Palos Verdes. Prior to his
public service career, Congressman Kuykendall was president of
Lockheed Mortgage Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed Corporation
and also a Vice President and National Accounts Officer specializing
in airlines and aerospace companies for a large multinational
commercial bank. A Vietnam veteran, Congressman Kuykendall retired
from the US Marine Corps as a Captain.
"MSS is an obvious and appropriate
outgrowth of our success at Maytag Aircraft Corporation,”
says CEO Joseph A. Czyzyk, adding, “We’ve never failed
in our service to the U.S. military and it is with that certainty
and capability that we offer the private sector the same level
of service and commitment.”
For more information on MSS, please
contact Executive Vice President David Herbst at dherbst@mercuryair.com.
