Congratulations to NCMS members Universal Synaptics and Lockheed Martin on the announcement today that the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has approved and authorized the Portable Intermittent Fault Detector™ (PIFD™) for use by all F-35 JPO Program Management Offices and at all JPO-sponsored facilities. The PFID is the only approved Electrical Wiring Interconnect System (EWIS) […]
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Congratulations to Universal Synaptics and Lockheed Martin on their agreement to work together to help the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) solve intermittent faults. With a DoD goal of 80% mission-capable rates for certain critical aircraft platforms, Universal Synaptics’ Intermittent Fault Detection technology will be used to discover random fault anomalies in multi-domain electronics as […]
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Congratulations to NCMS member Universal Synaptics on the recent promotion of Ken Anderson to President & CEO. Join Ken at the upcoming NCMS Member Meeting in Richmond, VA on May 7th. Ken Anderson, who for the past 10 years has served as the company’s Vice President – Sales and Business Development, will serve as President […]
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November 20, 2012. The aim of the annual “Great Ideas” Competition is to provide a forum for the sharing of the most effective and leading edge innovations in maintenance technologies and processes. Six finalists had been selected to present their “Great Idea” at the Symposium. Each finalist had just 15 minutes to make the case as to why they should be chosen as the best of the “Great Ideas” participants.
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This year, on the tenth anniversary of the CTMA Magazine, we celebrate CTMA’s role in accelerating the development of many incredible technologies for the maintenance and sustainment communities. We showcase some consequential successes in CTMA projects. And we highlight a timeline of technological developments that have advanced maintenance from being primarily reactive, to increasingly proactive, […]
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After a two-year hiatus, nearly two hundred leaders from government, industry, and academia gathered at NCMS’s 2022 Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) Partners Meeting, held May 3-5 in Virginia Beach, VA. Focused on advancing the development and adoption of key maintenance and sustainment (M&S) technologies, the Partners Meeting provided a forum for experts to [...]
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NCMS proudly partnered with Carrier Team One to host the Innovation Expo on June 9 at the Wyndham Bayside in San Diego. As part of this year’s Annual Carrier Community Event, industries gathered to demonstrate innovative technology that would assist with fleet availability. The objective of the event was to engage in dialogue about what […]
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NCMS Project #: 140493 Problem: This CTMA project will expand within the “Bad Actor Laboratory” Intermittent Fault Detection & Isolation System (IFDIS) capability at Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OO-ALC) of identifying and isolating intermittent faults to the LRU currently repaired at Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC). Benefit: DoD will experience greater reliability and a […]
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Recently NCMS member Universal Synaptics unveiled its new software application, Synapse, to the Joint Intermittent Test (JIT) Working Group. This software is an upgrade enhancement to the Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation System (IFDIS) a diagnostic instrument that can simultaneously and continuously monitor all unit test circuits individually at the same time detecting intermittent faults. […]
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