To meet the operational requirement of a light and lean solution that does not require heavy cranes and forklifts for assembly. The design team arrived at a perceived minimum footprint for the deployable kit. The idea was to develop a solution that a small team of maintenance personnel could assemble with minimum tooling and support. The team also wanted to take advantage of systems that may already be in an area of responsibility or prepositioned location. As an example, a portable air compressor or a standard MEP generator system. Although the system can be complexed to other structures to meet any operational requirement for space or back-shop maintenance, this design focused on providing the minimum qualifications necessary to meet small part repair demands. The entire system can be packed in 3 ISU-90s or palletized.

The lessons learned throughout this venture increase the lethality of weapon systems by keeping them fully mission capable without engineering limitations or delayed discrepancies. The solution stands to provide a post natural disaster surge capacity or a post attack recovery solution in the event critical infrastructure is lost or takes years to replace. Given the fact people are certainly more important than hardware the system provides a safer solution for what has traditionally been an accepted wartime necessity of performing sanding and painting operations in non-approved fabric shelter systems. TRAC9 looks forward to developing solutions and use cases like this one that require outside the box thinking and a dedicated team of innovators to solve real-world logistics challenges.

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