Navy

The United States Navy has been at the forefront of the DoD’s drive for standards-based, COTS test equipment. The Navy’s Consolidated Automatic Support System (CASS) program embodies these principles, and has been instrumental in reducing the Navy’s cost to acquire and maintain ATE. Designed from the ground up with best-in-class subsystems, the CASS station tests electronic assemblies for numerous Navy programs, and has enabled the Navy to obsolete legacy ATE by migrating test programs to CASS.

Teradyne has supplied the Digital Test Units (DTU) for CASS since the early 1990’s. More recently, Teradyne was selected to supply parallel analog (ATI) and serial bus (BTI) test instruments to upgrade CASS and accelerate the Navy’s tester consolidation objectives.

The Marines originally used the CASS system for avionics support and in 2003 launched the Reconfigurable Transportable CASS (RTCASS) program to better serve the Marine’s mobile requirements. RTCASS is heavily populated with Teradyne technology, including:

• M9-Series digital instruments which aligns to latest performance requirements and streamlined TPS migration from CASS
• Ai-710 parallel analog instruments which seeks to reduce test times, enhance operational test coverage and improve tester utilization
• Bi-410 serial bus instruments which replace several bus emulators with a single card slot

In 2010, the Navy launched the eCASS program to replace the CASS stations and provide a modern platform to support weapons systems that will enter service in the next 10 years. As with the prior generation system, Teradyne’s instruments will serve as core elements of the eCASS station.