DocumentCode :
3235571
Title :
Enabling net-centric diagnostics in the F/A-18 automated maintenance environment
Author :
Shannon, Russell ; Richardson, Thomas ; Koepping, Craig ; Alwardt, Anthony L.
Author_Institution :
Naval Air Syst. Command, Lakehurst, NJ
fYear :
2008
fDate :
8-11 Sept. 2008
Firstpage :
377
Lastpage :
381
Abstract :
For the past eight years, the AN/USM-681 Electro-Optics Pallet/Pod Tester (EOPT) system has been the main on-aircraft support equipment (SE) item used to test and troubleshoot the AN/ASD-10 Advanced Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance System (ATARS), the AN/ASD-12 Shared Reconnaissance Pod (SHARP), and the AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod. Parts obsolescence issues have caused significant increases in the cost and time to repair and/or procure an EOPT. Developing a replacement for the EOPT was an opportunity to reduce maintenance costs and implement net-centric diagnostics within the F/A-18 automated maintenance environment (AME). This paper describes the first year of a two-year Technology Transition Initiative (TTI) in which the tester hardware was redesigned to mitigate obsolescence by leveraging Local Area Network eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI) technology, and a net-centric diagnostics framework (NCDF) was designed to enable the bi-directional exchange of test data and maintenance data for smarter testing in both the on-aircraft and off-aircraft maintenance environments, leveraging existing technologies, such as Smart TPS.
Keywords :
aircraft maintenance; automatic testing; data acquisition; F/A-18; automated maintenance environment; local area network extensions for instrumentation technology; maintenance data; net centric diagnostics framework; smarter testing; technology transition initiative; Aerospace electronics; Costs; Hardware; Instruments; Manufacturing; Military computing; Portable computers; Reconnaissance; System testing; Variable speed drives; AME; ATFLIR; ATML; F/A-18; LXI; Net-centric; SHARP; Smart TPS;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
AUTOTESTCON, 2008 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake Cirty, UT
ISSN :
1088-7725
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2225-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1088-7725
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/AUTEST.2008.4662644
Filename :
4662644
Link To Document :
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