During the last four decades, the number of Automated Test Systems (ATS) has experienced tremendous growth at U.S. Army repair depots. This is characterized by the proliferation, through Base Realignment and Closure acquisition and in-house development, of a wide variety of general and special purpose ATS. With advancing technology and increasingly complex electronic systems, unique ATS has become a problem of maintenance test strategies at the depots, given the high costs of modernizing or replacing ATS and its potential effect on meeting mission success requirements. The aging testers are becoming increasingly out of date and more difficult to support. When the testers do not work properly, maintenance can suffer, and mission readiness can be adversely affected. This paper analyzes the problem and presents a plan for modernization of ATS at the Army depots that satisfies Army Regulation, AR750-43, and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) ATS acquisition policy.
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