Case Studies - Engineering and Logistics

Common Aircraft Portable Reprogramming Equipment (CAPRE) “Delivering transformative multi-service weapon systems support”

For the past eight years, NCI has been providing engineering and logistics support services to the 309th Software Maintenance Group to support the development and manufacturing of the Common Aircraft Portable Reprogramming Equipment (CAPRE) Program. Integrating research, development, and production experience, our functional and technical experts have delivered cost-effective and universally common reprogramming capability for multi-service weapon systems. The NCI and Government team solution supports the DoD initiative to harmonize support of weapon systems utilizing common support equipment, significantly reducing the logistics footprint and supporting rapid, lean logistics deployments. CAPRE is a lightweight hardware and software system providing a means to transfer mission-critical data, including operational flight programs and mission data files. We meet Warfighter mission requirements across multi-service weapon systems, reducing redundancy and cycle time, while increasing reliability, responsiveness, availability, and portability. CAPRE is currently used on the C-5A, B-52, A-10, C-17, F-15, F-16, C-141, MH-53, and MH-60 weapon systems. The NCI and Government partnership has made impressive gains in reducing acquisition costs and time-to-field through efficient business practices, modern technologies, and process innovation. The 309th Software Maintenance Group was the first Air Force organic organization to reach Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 5 status.