CASS

The Navy's Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS), a DoD designated ATS Family, was developed by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) as the Navy standard ATE for support of electronic systems at Intermediate Maintenance Activities (IMAs) both ashore and afloat in addition to Navy repair depots. CASS was designed to be modular and currently consists of four configurations:

1) Hybrid (HYB);
2) Radio Frequency (RF);
3) Communications, Navigation, and Identification (CNI); and,
4) Electro-Optical (EO).

Additional capabilities such as pneumatic function generation are provided through various ancillary equipment items. The newest member of the CASS family, Reconfigurable-Transportable CASS (RT-CASS), is being produced to support USMC and US SOCOM V-22 as well as USMC EA-6B, F/A-18 and AV-8B aircraft. Click here for a picture of RTCASS.



The various mainframe configurations of CASS contain five or six racks of test instruments fully integrated into a complete test system. To avoid obsolescence and allow upgrades for testing future weapon technologies, CASS uses a flexible hardware and software architecture. Today, CASS is demonstrating strong performance towards meeting its primary objectives:

• increased weapon system material readiness,
• reduced weapon system initial, support and life cycle costs,
• reduced proliferation of peculiar support equipment,
• improved tester availability, and
• Navy-wide testing capability for existing and future electronic requirements.

The early blocks of CASS are approaching 17 years of service and NAVAIR PMA260 is initiating a CASS Modernization Program to update the early stations and address obsolescence issues while adding the test capabilities required by forthcoming weapon systems.  The modernized CASS will be named eCASS.  Production will start in FY08.






Last Modified: 14 January 2005

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