Combat Systems COTS System Administration

Integrated Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM) are used by maintenance and operating personnel to obtain technical information and trouble-shooting procedures for ship's equipment. For the New Attack Submarine (NSSN) Non-Propulsion Electronic Systems (NPES), the current plan is for the operator to bring up an IETM viewer, of which there may be several types, and manually index to the appropriate section of the IETM. We propose to design and implement an Automated Performance Support System Tool (APSST) to integrate this capability directly into the NPES System Management function. The APSST will start the IETM viewer and automatically index to the appropriate section of the IETM, thereby providing an intelligent, interactive system administration tool for systems diagnostics. The APSST will also bring up viewers for Interactive Course Ware (ICW) where this is appropriate.