Evaluation of an automatic test support system at an army general support maintenance echelon

This paper evaluates the deployment of an Automatic Test Support System at the Army's General Support maintenance echelon. Because of data being unavailable to the writers at time of printing, an addendum to this report will be Drovided at Autotestion '78. At that time, the effects of the ATSS on present Army logistics concepts will be explored in detail. Recommendations and conclusions will be pre sented for utilization of future ATS3. Ideas based on field experience at the GS shop will be developed for Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) at other maintenance echelon(i.e., Organizational, Direct Support (DS), and Denot). The effect of ATE on operational readiness will be studied.