Program Resource Plan

Named delivery-team roster for the CWP-700 Composite Wing Panel Production Program, showing FTE allocation, location, blended hourly rate, and period labor cost — reconciled line-for-line to the Program Budget's Labor line for both the Qualification/First Article phase and the Production Ramp & Steady-State phase.

Staffing note: Acme Aerostructures is the Tier 1 supplier of record; all roles are Acme Aerostructures employees onshore at the production facility, plus periodic on-site source inspection by Meridian Aircraft Co. quality representatives (not billed to this program).

Phase 1 — Qualification & First Article (6 months)

Phase 2 — Production Ramp & Steady-State (12 months)

Reconciliation to Program Budget

Rate increase, not a staffing correction (RAIDD D-06): Meridian Aircraft Co. issued Purchase Order Amendment PA-002 increasing the CWP-700 monthly production rate — this is customer-driven demand growth, unlike the earlier D-05 correction below. The team expands from 25 to 50: a full third production shift (layup, autoclave/cure, trim & drill, NDT, quality inspection) mirroring the existing two-shift structure, a Deputy Program Manager and second Manufacturing/Supplier Quality Engineers for the larger program, and entirely new support functions the higher throughput requires that simply didn't exist at the lower rate: Materials Handling/Logistics Coordinators, Maintenance Technicians, Incoming Material Inspectors, Packaging/Shipping Technicians, a Production Scheduler, a Training Coordinator, and IT/Systems Support. Total program labor grew from $4,344,000 to $7,971,000 as a result — see the Program Budget and RAIDD Decision D-06.

Timing note: D-06 was decided Jul 3, 2027 — roughly 8 months into Phase 2, once Meridian's real order volume made the rate increase clear, not on Phase 2's first day. The third shift and its supporting roles phased in from that point forward, running through Phase 2's close. The Phase Hours/Cost figures above are shown at the corrected team's fully-ramped, steady-state annual run-rate — the same run-rate basis used in the Total Cost of Ownership page — which is the standard this program budgets to; actual cash spend during the ~4-month ramp-in period is correspondingly lower, and that timing difference is what the Program Management Reserve exists to absorb rather than a re-baselining event. See the WBS for the Phase 2 schedule this rate increase overlays onto.

Earlier staffing correction (RAIDD D-05, for history): An earlier planning pass sized Phase 2 at 13 people — enough for governance, quality oversight, and a single composite layup cell, but not enough to run real steady-state two-shift production of an OEM part number. It had 3 layup technicians total, no autoclave/cure technicians, no trim-and-drill technicians, only one NDT resource (the Materials/NDT Engineer personally covering hands-on inspection), and no document control or EHS role. This correction (distinct from D-06 above) grew the team from 14 to 25 and total program labor from $2,710,000 to $4,344,000 — see RAIDD Decision D-05 for when and why this was decided.

Blended Hourly Rate is a fully loaded internal cost-recovery rate — salary, fringe, overhead, and G&A — not a billing rate to Meridian Aircraft Co.. A. Whitfield (Tooling Engineer) rolls off at the end of Phase 1 once production tooling is qualified and released; every other Phase 1 resource carries into Phase 2. The 25 "Phase 2 addition" resources join at two points: the original D-05 correction (Sep 28, 2026, growing the team to 25) and the D-06 rate increase (Jul 3, 2027, growing the team to 50) — see the RAIDD Log for exact dates per decision.

See the Work Breakdown Structure for how each of these 50 people's time maps to specific, dated tasks — not just FTE% and cost.