Logistics support planning for standardized avionics

An overview of the standard flight data recorder (SFDR) program is presented. The SFDR is a multifunction, crash-survivable, solid-state flight data recorder which gathers incident, structural fatigue, engine performance, individual aircraft tracking, and maintenance diagnostics data. The SFDR is in the process of being applied as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) across the US Air Force and Navy aircraft fleets. The authors describe how Smiths Industries, SLI Avionic Systems Corp. has addressed the challenge of developing an acquisition strategy and integration concept, and they focus on the integrated logistics support plan for the GFE program, involving the many US Air Force logistics centers and US Navy aviation depots responsible for the wide range of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to receive the SFDR system. >