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“We have a large fleet of AWACS aircraft and need to keep them flying. Electronic parts fail, so it’s up to us to make sure we find the causes of the failures, make the repairs and get those items back into the Air Force’s supply system as quickly as possible.”

The AWACS legacy Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), the GSM-285, is over 30 years old and beset with DMS (Diminishing Manufacturing Resources) issues, a replacement was required and we needed a plan fast.

“Re-hosting test programs to any conventional functional Automatic Test Systems (ATS) has become quite cost prohibitive at a time when large budgets no longer exist. “We have more than 150 digital TPS (Test Program Sets) that require re-hosting, and if conventional ATE was the only option, it would cost in excess of $150,000 for each item re-hosted and would take anywhere from eight to 18 months per item re-hosted. With the PinPoint II systems, we’ve turned-out seventy-two TPSs at one-tenth the cost of conventional ATS, and we’ve accomplished this within 16 Months.”

After attending many Automatic Test Equipment trade shows and conferences over the years, one of the vendors that impressed Mr. Dennis Robichaud, the AWACS Support Equipment Program Manager, was DiagnoSYS and their PinPoint II system. The system was small, reasonably priced, easy to operate and fit nicely within the waning DoD budget environment. . . . . . more