Critical Thoughts

5 Ways to Protect Product Longevity

By GDCA | March 13, 2017

Plan sustainment early Budget for sustainment Identify your high-risk/critical components Manage the big picture Strategically plan your design refresh Innovation is known for making products better, faster, and smarter. When […]

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Get your boards…while you still can.

By GDCA | April 10, 2016

Have you ever requested additional post-EOL LTBs from your board OEM, only to find you need more boards later on? Board OEMs care about their customers. If these OEMs could […]

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Innovating Obsolescence: When the Supply Chain Is Around Your Throat

By GDCA | February 26, 2015
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Obsolescence can pose a grave threat to individuals, economies, and nations. Security and defense receive a great deal of attention in our Critical Thoughts section, partly because they are domains […]

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Counterfeits Take To the Road

By GDCA | January 16, 2015

Those who have been keeping up know the threat counterfeiting poses to the embedded world. To this point, most of our conversations regarding counterfeits have been focused on the damage […]

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Happy Holidays from GDCA!

By GDCA | December 1, 2014

As the curtain begins to close on 2014, we at GDCA wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of our customers, partners, and allies in the […]

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Building for VICTORY: The U.S. Army and the Vehicle Integration Network Initiative

By GDCA | October 20, 2014

It isn’t a high-profile battle, but those who know are aware that our armed forces are engaged in a perpetual war with an enemy that is, ultimately, unbeatable. That enemy […]

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Sensors Going Blind: Obsolete Medical Scanners in the Developing World

By GDCA | August 20, 2014

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night with chest pains. You can’t call 911 because you live in a region without telephone service. There are few emergency services […]

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What Happens When IVs Dry Up: Interruptions in the Saline Supply Chain

By GDCA | July 28, 2014

Saline isn’t one of the products that most people tend to think about in terms of supply and demand. It has become almost universal in the medical world—especially if you […]

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The JTAG Interrogator: The Arrival of a New Counter-Counterfeiting Tool

By GDCA | June 18, 2014

The extent of component counterfeiting can be staggering when you think about it: Unmarked refurbished units Salvaged components dressed up to look new Illegal clones or second-run components Tainted components […]

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US Navy: Sailing Full Steam Ahead… and Making Petro-Fuels Obsolete?

By GDCA | June 4, 2014

Earlier this spring, scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) announced a prototype process for producing liquid hydrocarbon fuel from seawater. NRL’s proprietary process uses a modular reaction system […]

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