NDLI: A commercial approach to military system sustainment

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Burrus, P.F. Jones, R. Lew, C.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: C-17 ATS Support Equipment, Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Long Beach, CA, USA (Burrus, P.F.; Jones, R.; Lew, C.)
Abstract	The US Department of Defense (DoD) has utilized commercially-built military systems designed with Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and software in an attempt to cut costs. Supporting and maintaining these commercial systems need to have a different approach than the existing maintenance concepts for the proprietary military systems. In this paper we will look at a streamlined process on DoD C-17 Automated Test Equipment (CATE) using a commercial approach to support and maintain them. Test equipment obsolescence is a serious problem in DoD ATE systems today, especially with a commercial system. The CATE is a commercial system integrated with COTS software and hardware. In its brief lifetime of approximately 10 years the CATE in particular averages an obsolescence of two and a half COTS hardware or Tester Replaceable Units (TRUs) every three years. The lifespan support on the CATE COTS software averages just less than two years. As the TRUs and software become obsolete and unsupportable a streamlined process is necessary and critical in finding and qualifying alternate TRUs and software. This streamlined process needs to reduce the total life-cycle costs of maintenance support while maintaining the current availability of the deployed fleet of CATEs and the continued seamlessly uninterrupted support of the Test Program Sets (TPSs) that run on them.
Starting Page	166
Ending Page	168
File Size	681670
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467306980
ISSN	10887725
e-ISBN	9781467307000
DOI	10.1109/AUTEST.2012.6334535
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-10
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software Hardware Maintenance engineering Aging US Department of Defense Availability Qualifications
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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