Posts by GDCA
Strengthening Long-Term Support: 2025 Reflections
December 16, 2025
As the 2025 year comes to an end and a new year approaches, Tania Scroggie offers her reflections as the OEM Relationship Director at GDCA over her experiences over the past year in her latest YouTube upload! Over the four episodes of “Tania’s Teachables” released in 2025, Tania explored the many conversations she’s had with…
Understanding the True Cost of Tech Obsolescence
December 14, 2025
Do we, as an industry, truly understand the full impact and cost of tech obsolescence? Over the past years, the team at GDCA has been doing our best to educate and illuminate the electronics industry on the impact that obsolescence has on every level of our supply chains. Traditionally, product obsolescence was simply managed in-house,…
Staying Mission Ready: The Importance and Value of Extending Legacy Equipment Lifecycles in Critical Defense Programs
October 30, 2025
In previous articles, we’ve discussed the massive, costly impact that electronics obsolescence has on Defense programs. Few industries feel the effects of this problem the way that Defense manufacturers, contractors, and programs experience it. Many of the electronic systems deployed for use in these applications will be needed for ten years or more, often upwards…
Protect Your Core by Transferring the Tail: Offloading the Old to Focus on the New without Abandoning Either
October 10, 2025
Your road map for your business only works if you protect it–and Tania Scroggie makes this clear in the latest installment of her YouTube series! In her video, Tania explores the problems with trying to handle legacy embedded products internally, rather than giving them to an expert like GDCA–and why offloading these long-tailed products doesn’t…
Managing Electronic Component Obsolescence in Defense Programs
October 1, 2025
The problem of electronics obsolescence is uniquely potent when it comes to Defense programs. Modern Defense electronic systems tend to be rife with obsolete components or components at risk for being discontinued–some of which are mission-critical for the larger system. So not only is electronic obsolescence more prevalent, it also tends to have a much…
The Inchworm Dilemma: Why Your Strategy Isn’t Moving Forward
August 18, 2025
Tania Scroggie is back with another episode of ‘Tania’s Teachables’ over on YouTube, this time exploring the hard truth of dealing with legacy electronics in today’s modern world of fast-paced technological advancement. ‘The Inchworm Dilemma’ explores a common challenge facing the support of legacy products–a lack of infrastructure. Grand Plans that Stretch Your Company beyond…
Strategies for Managing Obsolete Semiconductors amidst Changing Global Markets and Supply Chain Issues
August 6, 2025
Semiconductors are literally the backbone of all electronics–and because of that, when a semiconductor becomes obsolete, finding support for it, whether that be replacement parts, fresh components, or repair services, goes from a routine thing to a major problem. Plus, with the current U.S. administration’s tariffs, both in-progress and implemented, the global semiconductor industry has…
Strategies for Effective Part Obsolescence Management in Electronic Infrastructure Systems
June 3, 2025
As a society, we are incredibly dependent on our smartphones and devices, whether we want to admit it or not, for many crucial aspects of our daily lives. But imagine one day that your smart phone just stops working. No calls, no texts, no internet connection. You can’t access your emails, your personal and office…
How GDCA Solved an Impossible Legacy Hardware Challenge | Ep.1: The Customer Challenge & GDCA’s Role
April 11, 2025
Dawn Dela Rosa, Director of Manufacturing at GDCA, takes the stage on our YouTube channel with a new three-part short video series exploring a recent sustainment challenge that we recently undertook for a military program struggling to find a source for their critical but obsolete hardware. The first episode introduces the major problem of this…
Tania’s Teachables: OEMs, Long-Term Support & GDCA FAQs
April 11, 2025
Tania Scroggie is back with another episode of “Tania’s Teachables” over on the GDCA YouTube channel, this week tackling the frequently asked questions that we get here at GDCA about how we support both OEMs and customers! Throughout her time at GDCA, both working directly with our customers and partners, and representing the company, Tania…