Critical Thoughts

Obsolescence: Too Soon or Not Soon Enough?

By GDCA | February 26, 2014
High Voltage Utility Pole

It is strange how onboarding the concept of legacy sustainment can change the way you look at the world around you. On a recent road trip along one of the […]

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Keys to Managing DMSMS: A Clear Assessment of Obsolescence Risk

By GDCA | November 13, 2013

“Proactively consider DMSMS through[out] a system’s life cycle by anticipating potential DMSMS occurrences and taking appropriate logistics, acquisition, and budgeting steps to prevent DMSMS from adversely affecting readiness or total […]

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Keys to Successfully Managing DMSMS: Being Proactive

By GDCA | October 23, 2013
DMSMS Program Manager

“Proactively take timely and effective actions to identify and minimize the DMSMS impact on DoD acquisition and logistics support efforts.” SD-22 DMSMS Guidebook The DMSMS conference is just around the […]

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SAE AeroTech 2013: Innovation and Total Life Cycle Support

By GDCA | October 9, 2013
SAE CEO Podium

The SAE 2013 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, brought together an international community to discuss both design and total life-cycle sustainment. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) boards and components […]

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Software Obsolescence: Why Modernization Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Modern”

By GDCA | September 18, 2013
Software Obsolsecence

For players in the embedded industry it is easy to forget how large the problem of obsolescence can be, especially beyond the component level. Recently, I was talking to a […]

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Golf: A Good Thing Never Truly Becomes Obsolete

By GDCA | September 4, 2013

Every year at National Instruments NI Week in Austin, TX the GDCA team gets to enjoy a wave of hot weather that is only overshadowed by a tide of hot […]

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Counterfeit Mitigation: The Trouble with “Tagging”

By GDCA | August 21, 2013

When the subject of counterfeit mitigation and avoidance comes up you generally find a couple of areas that people focus on: standards, test/inspection, and tagging. Tagging can involve many things, […]

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Are PCs becoming obsolete?

By GDCA | August 7, 2013

Recently on NPR I heard that PC sales have hit a record low.  With the growing touch screen market, even Windows is focusing their innovation and development on the tablet […]

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CALCE Counterfeit avoidance: Tags won’t fix the supply chain issue

By GDCA | July 24, 2013
Shipping Containers

When it comes to avoiding counterfeit components, the CALCE and SMTA “Counterfeit East” symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park is a conference we look forward to attending.  Counterfeit […]

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Arrow ACT Masters: An Environment of Innovation

By GDCA | July 10, 2013

GDCA enjoyed the privilege of being a part of this year’s Arrow Electronics ACT Masters 2013 in Denver CO.  Arrow’s technical sales force was trained in a centralized fashion while […]

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