Shared technologies - developing a roadmap for technology insertion into legacy USAF ATE platforms

Author

Clendenin, Chris K. ; Reaser, James R.

Author_Institution

Boeing Com., Saint Louis, MO, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

118

Abstract

The long-term goal of the USAF shared technologies program is to facilitate the development of a roadmap for technology insertion on the wide variety of legacy automatic test equipment (ATE) accumulated by the USAF over the past 30 years. A successful roadmap will provide for operation & support (O&S) cost reduction, preserve test program set (TPS) development investments and evolve in concert with the DoD executive agent for automatic test systems (ATS) initiatives and commercial industry and (e.g. NxTest) changes. The near term objective of this phase of the USAF shared technologies program is to demonstrate the feasibility of incorporating available commercial technology into the radio frequency (RF) mobile electronic test set (RFMETS). The RFMETS was originally delivered to the USAF during the early 1990s and is used to support a variety of C-130 avionics including the APQ-170 and APQ-180 radar systems.

Keywords

aerospace test facilities; automatic test equipment; military avionics; military radar; ATE platform technology insertion; ATS; NxTest; RF mobile electronic test set; RFMETS; TPS; automatic test equipment; automatic test systems; avionics; legacy USAF ATE platforms; operation/support cost reduction; radar systems; test program set development; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Automatic test equipment; Automatic testing; Costs; Investments; Radar; Radio frequency; System testing; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON 2003. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Proceedings

ISSN

1080-7725

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7837-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2003.1243564

Filename

1243564