Shared technologies: a new roadmap

Author

Clendenin, Chris K. ; Reaser, James R.

Author_Institution

Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO, USA

Volume

19

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

20

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

automatic test equipment; military avionics; military computing; military radar; APQ-170 radar system; APQ-180 radar system; ATE; C-130 avionics; DoD executive agent; RFMETS; TPS; USAF Shared Technologies Program; automatic test equipment; operation and support cost reduction; radar systems; radio frequency mobile electronic test set; roadmap; test program set; Aerospace electronics; Automatic test equipment; Automatic testing; Costs; Electronic equipment testing; Investments; Radar; Radio frequency; System testing; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAES.2004.1275310

Filename

1275310