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USAF Plans Solicitation for Automatic Test Systems to Verify Weapon Functionality

USAF Plans Solicitation for Automatic Test Systems to Verify Weapon Functionality
Nathan Hinks, left, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Automatic Test Systems (ATS) division engineer, Dan Segno, back, AFLCMC ATS division program manager, watch as Senior Airman Douglas Roberts, Air Combat Command 55th Fighter Generation Squadron armament maintainer, runs a diagnostic test on a F-16 aircraft at Shaw AFB, S.C. on March 1 last year. The Air Force said that members of the AFLCMC ATS division travelled from the ATS division's headquarters at Robins AFB, Ga, to Shaw to aid weapon system function checks on the aircraft (Courtesy Photo on AFLCMC Website)

The U.S. Air Force is to solicit proposals for common automatic test equipment to verify the functionality of weapon system components. Air Force Materiel Command's Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) said that the future Automatic Test Systems Acquisition-I (ATSA-I) would be an "enterprise contract to support and sustain Automatic Test Systems (ATS) in the support of the Agile Combat Support (AFLCMC/WNA), Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, Warner Robins, Georgia, for the ATS Division." The division is seeking industry…

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