Legacy Assurance Plan

Legacy Systems Aren’t a One-Time Fix: Why Proactive Obsolescence Management Matters

The Cost of Treating Sustainment Like a Fire Drill  When a part goes obsolete, the response isn’t routine—it’s destabilizing. Engineers are pulled off deliverables. Procurement shifts into emergency sourcing. Operations waits without clear direction while schedules slip and earned value begins to drift. Program managers must explain impacts before full visibility exists.  The disruption moves fast. Production slows. Repair turnaround…

Why you can’t engineer your way out of Legacy

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

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…

Why Repeated LTBs Fail and Legacy Assurance Succeeds

Albert Einstein said, “Problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them,” and we agree. The speed with which technology is advancing causes new issues in system sustainability; problems that up until now, provide chronic headaches for most engineers and companies. For instance, note the vast differences between the processes of building embedded…