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US Navy GPETE Group Expects To Save Taxpayers Over $500K Annually
November 21, 2007
•Case Study: US Navy GPETE Group Expects To Save Taxpayers Over $500K Annually
When our nation's Navy gets the call to deploy, all hands must be ready to ship out at a moment's notice and all test equipment onboard must be calibrated for optimum performance, ready for action. To ensure optimum fire control, navigation and communications systems operation, the Navy charters the General Purpose Electrical/ Electronic Test Equipment (GPETE) program to procure test equipment for performing corrective and preventative maintenance.
Old Systems, Accuracy Problems
As part of that mission, the GPETE team is
charged with keeping track of the hundreds
of thousands of pieces of test equipment
located onboard naval vessels and at shore
support facilities, including calibration
facilities and repair depots. The team was
using a cumbersome, labor intensive process
in which a GPETE team member accessed a
central database for a list of equipment to
inventory. The team member then went to
the warehouse, looked for the items, located
their serial numbers and hand wrote them
on a piece of paper.
•Case Study: US Navy GPETE Group Expects To Save Taxpayers Over $500K Annually
