Obsolescence
Why You Can’t Engineer Your Way Out of Legacy: A Sustainment Strategy for Long-Lifecycle Systems
February 18, 2026
The Myth of “One Last Redesign” When legacy pressure builds, the instinct is familiar: redesign the board, refresh the architecture, modernize the specs, and buy another decade of support. On paper, it feels decisive. Engineering is engaged. A technical solution is in motion. But in long‑lifecycle systems, redesign rarely eliminates legacy risk. More often, it resets the clock…
Legacy Sustainment In-House: Hidden Risk for Embedded OEMs
February 9, 2026
What Happens When Embedded OEMs Keep Legacy Sustainment In-House? A quiet erosion that often ends in a sudden catastrophe. The risk isn’t always a single, dramatic event; it’s a slow, silent drift. Systems degrade. Critical knowledge walks out the door. Customers grow frustrated. And leadership is often unaware of just how fragile their internal support has become until it’s too late. …
Why you can’t engineer your way out of Legacy
February 3, 2026
The Myth of “One Last Redesign” Application OEMs often fall into a familiar trap: when legacy pressure builds, the next redesign is expected to solve it. One more refresh. One more board update. Another attempt to buy ten more years of support. On paper, it feels rational. Engineering is engaged. Specifications are modernized. A technical path…
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…
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…
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…
Legacy Sustainment Magic: When OEMs and LEMs Come Together (Sea Sparrow Case Study) – GDCA
February 26, 2025
GDCA is in the business of helping defense programs who can no longer get support for obsolete electronics circuit cards, like computer boards, graphics cards, power supply controllers and many more specialized electronics assemblies that make defense systems “smart”. These circuit card assemblies (CCAs) are often commercial products that have been discontinued by their OEMs.…
Strategically Approaching a “Last Time Buy” Notice
February 19, 2025
The day you receive that “last time buy” (LTB) notice for a crucial embedded PCB or PCB component for your systems can be stressful–even if you know it’s coming. What if you still need that circuit board five to ten years after that LTB day? Suddenly, sourcing the required parts becomes a mad scramble, resulting…