Bench-top tester requirements for the military shop environment

The commercial test industry has developed many small, affordable bench-top testers. These are primarily digital testers, which utilize certain test techniques (e.g., in-circuit test). In contrast, the variety of technologies utilized in today's military equipment has created support needs which are broad. If a bench-top tester solution is desired, the military is confronted with having to acquire a wide variety of bench-top testers and/or ancillary test equipment.<>