AWACS Case Study Avionics

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Mr. Robichaud led a two-phase risk mitigation analysis effort, known as the “AWACS Reduction Total Ownership Cost (RTOC) PinPoint II Program.” He contracted with a small engineering firm to test and fully evaluate the PinPoint’s advertised capabilities to ensure it could handle the AWACS workload. During the first phase – a detailed Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) of the PinPoint II Tester and its capabilities was performed including test article integration and testing. We then repeated fault detection & isolation (FD&I) tests with comparisons to the legacy tester to generate confidence in the PinPoint’s ability to fix the problems as well as a fully functional conventional test system.

In addition, analysis of the PinPoint’s reverse engineering capability (critical for COTS equipment) was tested and verified. Based on the Phase I analyses / results, Mr. Robichaud contracted both commercially and organically for a total of 72 Test Program Sets for the PinPoint systems.

AWACS application of PinPoint systems
The US E-3 Program Office’s risk reduction efforts:

• Assure maximum cost & schedule realism while minimizing technical risks
• Reduce the risk that GSM-285 DMS obsolescence could interrupt the E-3 maintenance/production capability
• Reduce MICAP rates, while increasing aircraft availability (Ao). . . . .more

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