Support for Test Equipment and Tools
Definition
Equipment (mobile or fixed) required to support the operation and maintenance of a system. This includes all tools, metrology and calibration equipment, and manual and automatic test equipment.
General/Information/Narrative
During the acquisition of systems, program managers are expected to decrease the proliferation of test equipment into the inventory by minimizing the development of new support equipment and giving more attention to the use of existing Government or commercial equipment. For any test equipment and tools which are required to sustain the system, support for those test equipment items and tools is likewise required. The support package for the acquisition systems must also be maintained. This requires calibration, diagnostics and maintenance procedures, tools, specific skills, manpower, supply support, calibration, maintenance instruction (equipment publications), PHS&T and training. Other test equipment tools, computer software, and even facilities may also be required to keep the test equipment and tools operational. The anticipated operational environment and anticipated force structure should be considered when obtaining the support items for test equipment and tools. Standard support items should be used when possible.
Policies, Directives, Regulations, Laws
AR 750–43 Army Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment
Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Stories, Guides, Handbooks, Templates, Example Tools, Communities of Practice, LEC Tools
GEIA-STD-0007 Interface: E Entities, Support Equipment Requirements. Data Entities identified by an "E" in the first position of the entity name are structured to consolidate the pertinent information related to existing or new support/test equipment or training equipment. Much of this information serves as administrative type data for the Support Equipment Recommendation Data (SERD) data exchange set. This information also serves as identification of hardware and software elements required to conduct off-line tests. The information in the E Entities is used to justify the requirement for new test equipment/tools.
PowerLOG directly supports this task with the TMDE Requirements Summary (LSA-072), Support Equipment Tool List (LSA-074), and Calibration & Measurement Requirement Summary (LSA-076) reports. The LSA-072 report lists TMDE data for support equipment when the Support Equipment Reference option is used. The LSA-074 report provides a list of tools related to support equipment and the status of those tools. The LSA-076 report details TMDE and the calibration standards and equipment required to assure accuracy of measurements. PowerLOG is a logistics data management system developed to support the development, integration, and review of logistic product information throughout the acquisition life cycle. PowerLOG implements the Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) requirements defined in MIL-STD-1388-2B as well as Logistics Product Data (LPD) standards defined by GEIA-STD-0007. PowerLOG also supports legacy data standards such as MIL-STD-1552 (PMR). PowerLOG is available free to all Government agencies and their contractors and can be obtained by visiting: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/powerlog/.
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