Maintaining the many types of weapons systems within the Department of Defense (DoD) is a tremendous task and procuring replacement components is made especially difficult due to obsolescence and often time, excessive pricing. Many components are no longer available from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and the DoD does not have sufficient documentation to develop new suppliers. A new, streamlined process is required to quickly develop a Technical Data Package (TDP) that will provide improved product availability by developing alternate sources of expensive and difficult to procure components. During Phase I, ES3 developed and demonstrated the feasibility of a streamlined process that provided quick development of TDPs required for alternative sources of DoD components. The Phase II effort will further develop that process, and through Reverse Engineering and quick turn prototype manufacturing, develop Source Approval Requests (SARs) for an expanded group of difficult to procure parts.
