Archive for 2016
November 4, 2016
PKL was honored to support our local SWAT and police officers with an Executive Officer Sponsorship to the Citizens of SWAT annual fundraiser. Citizens of SWAT organizes donations to provide San Diego SWAT teams with state-of-the-art equipment and training that regular departmental budgets don’t cover.
The annual event was hosted at Maderas Golf Club and raised large donations to fund the supplies and resources the SWAT team requires. As a token for our donation, PKL executives and guests participated in the golf tournament and got to check out the tools of the trade.
The event was attended by San Diego Mayor Kevin Falconer and SDPD Chief Shelley Zimmerman among other representatives of the City and police department.
It was successful in raising a significant amount towards their annual goal to properly outfit the SWAT team. PKL is proud to have supported this event and shared in the responsibility of protecting San Diego residents.
To watch highlights of the event and hear more about Citizens of SWAT, you can watch this video from KUSI News.
If you are interested in donating to Citizens of SWAT or finding out more about this organization, you can visit their website.
September 14, 2016
PKL Services, Inc. has been awarded an $11,908,688 modification to exercise an option on a previously awarded contract for Republic of Singapore aircraft maintenance and operation services.
Work will be performed at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and is expected to be complete by Sept. 30, 2017. This contract is 100 percent foreign military sales to the Republic of Singapore. The 366th Contracting Squadron, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, is the contracting activity.
This is the fourth option year on the five year sole source contract. Work is performed by approximately 127 employees primarily at Mountain Home Air Force Base Idaho with additional support to a variety of deployment locations around and outside the United States.
September 13, 2016
PKL Services, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) in support of the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF), beginning January 2017. This contract is 100% foreign military sales to the country of Saudi Arabia. This contract is a follow-on to PKL’s existing contract with the RSAF. Services will be provided in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at RSAF base facilities.
PKL will provide services to produce qualified technicians in assigned specialties for RSAF F-15SA model aircraft. This training includes Upgrade Training (UGT) that takes initial 3-level skill technicians to 5-level, then provides them position qualification training and a train-the-trainer course, followed by 5-level to 7-level training, and then instructor training for select 7-level technicians. The program also includes training for various maintenance officer qualifications, remedial English language training that focuses on technical terminology, and crossflow training on the F-15SA aircraft for RSAF technicians that have already been trained on the F-15C/D/S aircraft.
Areas of training and specialties include Avionics, Tactical Aircraft Maintenance, Propulsion, Electrical, Armament Systems, Aerospace Ground Equipment, Egress, Fuels, Hydraulics, and Maintenance Management. PKL will provide instructors and training to include academic and classroom style teaching as well as hands-on Upgrade Training to provide the students with the necessary skills to independently operate aircraft systems, subsystems, and related support equipment.
For this contract, PKL will initially employ approximately 121 skilled instructors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with planned potential growth at full operations to 323 instructors.
President of PKL, Terry G. Robling, confirmed the award saying “Our team is honored to continue our partnership with the Royal Saudi Air Force.”
August 25, 2016
The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce announced that PKL Services, Inc. has been designated as a Chamber Honor Roll business member. As a Chamber-sponsored effort to incentivize and motivate the hiring of veterans, the Chamber is proud to include PKL in its list of local firms that are proactively hiring our nation’s heroes.
“As one of the largest military regions in the county, we have an immense amount of talent and expertise in our veteran community. Without businesses like PKL Services and the leadership of Terry G. Robling setting the bar for veteran engagement, our work would be far more challenging,” said Jerry Sanders, President & CEO of the Chamber. “Our Honor Roll businesses are telling an important story. It’s the story of what happens when an employer is savvy enough to appreciate the unique skillset and capability a veteran brings to their enterprise and the community at large.”
Honor roll designees are Chamber of Commerce members that have hired a veteran that has remained employed for 90 days or longer. PKL was awarded the Elite Honor Roll status for maintaining a 10 percent veteran presence in their total employee numbers.
To date, PKL boasts over 90% of our workforce as veteran employees and we are proud to exemplify the value of veteran hiring in San Diego.
The Honor Roll program was launched in September 2015 as a Chamber imitative to expand business engagement in the veteran community and incentivize increased veteran hiring. The Chamber’s Defense, Veterans and Military Affairs Council pioneered the effort and continues to facilitate veteran hiring policies and guide the business voice in military issues at the local level. For additional information about the initiative, please contact Sophie Barnhorst at (619) 544-1314 or sbarnhorst@sdchamber.org
April 22, 2016
PKL Services, Inc. in Saudi Arabia teamed up with local police officials in the Asir Province, KSA during the 32nd annual Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) to raise awareness for traffic safety. Countries involved include Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain.
During this week, PKL sponsored advertising in the form of roadside signs in several high risk areas to promote safe driving. The focus was geared toward the dangers of distracted driving and the consequences of bad decisions. The theme was “Your fate is decided by your decisions” and was aimed at the 24-35 year old age group, who statistically are involved in the majority of motor vehicles accidents in the Middle East. This is a category that all of our RSAF trainees and some of our employees are a part of and there has been an increased number of accidents over the past year. There have been three student fatalities and one instructor who lost his life. This motivated us to get involved and to make it part of our safety program here in the KSA.
Abdullah Al-Shehri, our Saudi fuels systems instructor along with our quality manager Jeremiah White, were the points of contact and coordinated the effort. The sign and flyer designs were a collaborative effort within the management team here and the local authorities. Once designed, 12 signs were placed at intersections known for their high accident potential.
The KSA program manager and the officer in charge of the program spoke to 120 college and high school students at a local college and provided insight of the problem and possible solutions.
The flyers and pens were distributed to the students and given to the safety center located in the main police building. Agreements were made to continue the program by making it a cooperative effort and sharing information to both a military audience and schools in the province over the next year.
We are grateful to the efforts of our PKL team in Saudi for supporting this mission of safety.
April 4, 2016
As a part of our continued dedication to supporting both veterans and charitable organizations focused on military affiliations, PKL is proud to partner with the Iwo Jima Association of America, Inc.
The owner of PKL Services, Mr. Samuel Flores Jr. donated a substantial amount to the 71st Anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima Reunion. This annual event honors the veterans of Iwo Jima and celebrates the “warrior brotherhood expressed by the American and Japanese survivors on Iwo Jima”.
This year’s event, The 71sh Anniversary Commemoration, was held on Saturday 19 March, 2016. The Joint Ceremony with the Japanese was conducted at the Memorial above Red Beach.
You can view the IJAA 2016 Program, including guests and speakers here.
February 25, 2016
PKL CEO, Terry Robling, and Executive Vice President, Paul Callan, recently participated in the 2016 Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) Best Practices Exchange. The event, sponsored by the US Commercial Services, gathered delegates from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, and several US aerospace firms such as PKL, in order to expose the LMI countries to aviation expertise and state-of-the-art support concepts.
Terry and Paul were hand-selected by the US Commercial Services planners to present a seminar entitled: ‘Managing Change: Getting from here to there in an Aviation Project.’ During the follow-on panel discussion and separate one-on-one meetings, Terry and Paul explained PKL’s unique maintenance upgrade training program and PKL’s elite leadership development program.
