Legacy Assurance Plan
Legacy Systems Aren’t a One-Time Fix: Why Proactive Obsolescence Management Matters
March 9, 2026
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…
Planning for Legacy Sustainment Isn’t Optional — It’s a Business Decision You’re Already Making
February 3, 2026
The Cost of Waiting: Why Legacy Failures Are Always More Expensive Later Legacy systems rarely fail all at once. They fail quietly—and expensively. A component reaches end-of-life. A supplier exits the market. Test capability erodes as documentation ages and people move on. None of it feels urgent in isolation. But together, these small degradations create something far…
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…
Why Repeated LTBs Fail and Legacy Assurance Succeeds
September 11, 2018
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…