Modernizing a DoD ATS family - part II

This paper follows up the paper “Modernizing a DoD ATS Family” by William A. Ross that was published in the Proceedings of IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2005. That paper reviewed the Navy's CASS modernization planning, including the requirements leading to a need to modernize CASS, the goals and objectives of the modernization program, identification and evaluation of alternatives, and major issues to be addressed. It concluded with the Navy's vision for the modernized CASS. This paper reviews the activities and events that actually happened between the initial planning through award of the eCASS System Design and Development contract in March 2010. It compares the current objectives and expectations of the program with those listed in 2005. It details exactly which configurations of the CASS family will be replaced by eCASS, and it describes the eCASS mission areas and how they will be addressed through the implementation of Mission Equipment Kits. It describes the initial architecture and instrumentation of the eCASS station and discusses the migration of test program sets to eCASS from mainframe CASS. It describes the plans for taking eCASS into production and fielding, and for sustaining mainframe CASS during the fielding process.