Yulista Solutions has been honored with the 2024 Goddard Award for outstanding aviation maintenance and logistics support at the Goddard Space Flight Center and Wallops Flight Facility. From 2023 to 2024, Team Yulista has demonstrated unwavering dedication and perseverance, supporting over 1,200 NASA flight hours across CONUS and OCONUS locations, including Antarctica, India, Greenland, and Sweden. Congratulations, Team Yulista!
2024 Robert H. Goddard Award
For outstanding maintenance and logistics support for the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)/ Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) Aircraft Office.
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic the Yulista Solutions Inc. mechanics and logisticians supporting the CompreHensive Aircraft Readiness, Lifecycle, Engineering, and Support (CHARLES) contract have continued to provide excellent support to the GSFC/WFF Aircraft Office. While these mechanics and logisticians worked through the pandemic to continue to support critical NASA missions, since the end of the pandemic this group has continued to support multiple simultaneous missions and maintenance efforts globally. Since FY22 the CHARLES mechanics and logisticians have supported 26 aircraft missions on the P-3 Orion and C-130 Hercules as well as numerous mission management and pilot proficiency flights on the B-200 King Air. In addition to the mission activities the mechanics and logisticians supported heavy maintenance on the C-130 in New York and P-3 Phased Depot Maintenance in Texas along with several cabin and flight station modifications and upgrades to modernize each aircraft. While several of the aircraft missions occurred at WFF and domestic locations such as Arizona, most of the missions involved international deployments to locations such as India, Sweden, France, Greenland, Canada, Australia, Bermuda, and Antarctica. In total, from FY22 to present, this group has supported 1,202 flight hours for the GSFC/WFF Aircraft Office. This dedicated group of individuals has spent countless hours in preparation for each mission and maintenance activity, some of which involved nights and weekends to maintain mission schedules all the while keeping an eye toward aviation safety. Not only does this group support readying each aircraft for flight but they also deploy with the aircraft missions in other roles such as Flight Engineer, Aft Crewmember, Loadmaster and Ground Mechanic. These deployments can last from several days to months long deployments with limited ability to swap personnel out in the field due to remote locations. Logisticians have spent nights and weekends at WFF gathering equipment and shipping items out when deployed aircraft need emergency parts and supplies. This means that mechanics and logisticians spend significant amounts of time away from their families supporting NASA missions. If it wasn’t for the devoted and enthusiastic Yulista team along with the support of their families behind the scenes it would not be possible to support such a diverse mission set across the GSFC aircraft fleet with global flight operations. At the end of the day, it is committed and steadfast mechanics and logisticians of the GSFC/WFF Aircraft Office that make GSFC flight operations possible. These masters of their trade, with keen understanding of NASA missions and customer needs, allows for each aircraft mission and maintenance evolution to be a success. Their devotion to NASA, GSFC and flight operations cannot be overstated. The GSFC/WFF Aircraft Office owes all of its past and future successes to this group of individuals who quietly perform their duties to perfection each day to advance NASA’s missions and priorities.
Christian Zanin, Eddie Diaz Tapia, Joshua Bobek, Donald Craver, Daniel Sage, Eric Ott, Christopher Youngblood, Craig McComb, Kyle Gentry, Adele McIntyre, Bradley Watson, Kit Kugel, Blake Fleming, Jeanelle Wise, Kelly Griffin, *Kerry Gros, Consultant YS Flight Engineer, *Billy Mason, Consultant YS Flight Engineer
