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industrial base and future sustainment of these commercial hardware technologies for requiring program offices. Te public- private partnership enables TYAD, in turn, to become certified to do warranty repair work and subsequently transition into sustainment repair once the war- ranty expires.
Te success of the CHS MOU and past projects within PEO C3T’s Product Lead for Network Enablers (PL Net E) will also help establish standards for upcom- ing efforts. For example, in the next several years, as cryptographic key expi- ration dates approach for equipment used to safeguard information on the battle- field, the Army is ramping up an effort known as the Embedded Cryptographic Modernization Initiative. Tis new proj- ect involves updating and modernizing a
large population of various systems with embedded cryptography, including the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems (SINCGARS), with more than 300,000 currently in the field.
Tis massive effort could harness TYAD’s capabilities to physically modernize these systems. Te
radios, many of which
have been in the field for several years, will also need to be refurbished before the new cryptographic equipment can be installed, and TYAD—which prob- ably would do the reset—could also become a logical choice for the retrofit. Te SINCGARS radios are already in sustainment with TYAD, so this effort would be a matter of increasing the scope and scale of the depot’s work. Te IPT would help inform PEO C3T and PL Net E as to what capability TYAD has, how
In an era of increasing requirements, quickly evolving technology and shrinking budgets, a holistic approach to sustaining communications and electronic equipment is not just a nice-to-have, but a necessity.
the depot operates and how it could man- age an increase in scope.
BUILDING ON EXPERIENCE Already, the Project Manager for War- fighter Information Network – Tactical (PM WIN-T) Increment 1, the tactical communications network first fielded in 2004 to support
forces in Iraq and
Afghanistan, has teamed with TYAD for an equipment overhaul that returns aging equipment coming in from theater to a like-new state. Although WIN-T Increment 1 contains many subparts, the overhaul began with one: the Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs).
MULTISERVICE CAPABILITY
Felicia Wolverton, an electronics worker at TYAD, tests a power distribution panel for the AN/ TPS-75 Radar System. Wolverton and other technicians in the depot’s Surveillance Systems Branch repair, modify, test and install components and subassemblies on Air Force AN/TPS-75 and Marine Corps AN/TPS-63 and AN/TPS-59 radar systems. TYAD is a recognized leader in logistics support for C4ISR systems across DOD, making its partnership with the acquisition program managers in PEO C3T all the more important. (U.S. Army photo by Steve Grzezdzinski)
Tis effort marked the first time since the program began fielding that the STTs would be overhauled. Te Army selected the STTs to kick off the TYAD overhaul effort because of the large num- ber of them in the WIN-T Increment 1 program—more than 1,800—and the amount of battlefield wear and tear they had experienced. Te overhaul began in FY14 as a small pilot program that is slowly ramping up as TYAD optimizes
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