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with them on developing a solution," Long
says. "One of our major clients asked us to
assist them in reducing their maintenance
cost for a particular piece of GSE. We devel-
oped our upgrade program by analyzing the
needs with our client. We liked the program
so much, we built out the program to cover
all GSE. Now Xced can offer all our clients
the capability of upgrading to new or refur-
bished GSE through our upgrade program.
The program reduces the client's mainte-
nance footprint and provides a more effcient
operation through more reliable GSE."
GSE for the 21
st
Century
Xced started when Long and the Sasser
management team identifed a service ele-
ment missing in aviation GSE feet man-
agement and fnancing. Now, two years in,
a much larger Xced team is ready to tackle
the next gap: data.
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Joe Edison, Chair, Sasser Family Council; Jeff Walsh, COO, Sasser Family
Holdings; John Sasser, Sasser family member; Luke Lukens, VP & CFO,
Sasser Family Holdings; William Long, President, Xced Aviation Services