Electronic Technician

Reviewed test plans for items purchased through Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Electronics Supply Center to determine feasibility for testing in accordance with contractual requirements and specifications. When I determined the Product Test Facility had the capability to perform testing on electronic components I selected the items in for testing via the test facility to ensure contract compliance via manufacturers and vendors. Applied requirements from Military and Electronic Engineering standards to ensure quality assurance. Sampling plans were carried out in accordance with MIL-S-19500. Performed quality assurance audits on the test facility to ensure the testing was performed in an environmentally approved room with proper temperature and humidity controls and when necessary that clean room environments existed. Also performed quality assurance audits on test personnel to ensure all testing requirements/procedures were followed and the test equipment used for testing was within calibration requirements.

Information collected from the test results of items tested via the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Electronic Supply Center’s Test Facility was passed on to field quality assurance agents in order to tighten inspection at vendor/manufacturing locations where items did not meet specifications delineated in contracts under which the items were purchased. All items purchased via the Defense Electronic Supply Center were under the cognizance of the test facility and had the chance of being inspected by test facility personnel prior to entry into the Federal Supply System for distribution to customers. As an agent of the test facility I had the power to freeze stock while the items received under a particular contract were being tested for compliance.

Selected items for testing in the electronic product test facility through the review of contracts let via Defense Electronic Supply Center’s procurement division. This included a thorough review of manufacturer methods, special processes, functional parts and subassemblies of complex products up to and including antennae assemblies and sub assemblies. The entire stock controlled under the Defense Electronics Supply Center (DESC), including all stock classes handled via DESC were subject to be called in for inspection via me. Not only did I make requests for items to be tested from contracts that were let, I made requisitions for samples of stock already in the warehouse to be tested to ensure Stock Quality Assurance.

Review purchase contracts to identify items for random testing to ensure purchased items complied with applicable specifications. This involved collection and review of contract specific technical drawings, specifications, and commercial catalog data in order to identify the electrical and physical parameters of each line item identified on each contract and making the determination whether or not the electronic product test facility had the capability to test the individual component. When I made the determination that the item could be tested, I would create a test package which included the contract, technical specifications and drawings, and then key pertinent information into an IBM-36 Mini using a 3180 terminal which created a project number for tracking through the test facility. Performed routine Quality Assurance inspections to ensure test lab personnel were following testing procedures in accordance with contract specific technical drawings, commercial data, and applicable Engineering and Military Specification Standards.