Industry adapts to meet military ATE requirements

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Industry adapts to meet military ATE requirements

Jaszka, P.R.

The emphasis is toward developing mobile ATE systems that are able to be deployed at or near the forward edge of a battle area. To counter the increasing number of potential threats, the services have developed systems to address the high costs of ATE procurement and the test program set transportability. These efforts include the Army's integrated family of test equipment, the Navy's consolidated automated support system, and the Air Force's modular automatic test equipment programs. Another objective is to employ more off-the-shelf electronic subsystems for testing printed circuit boards and to focus on standard hardware and software platforms. The use of commercial ATE has become an attractive solution for the services. The views of a cross-section of professionals on how the ATE industry can best serve the military's needs now and in the future are presented.