Legacy Assurance
LEM vs Vendor: Why OEMs Need a Legacy Equipment Manufacturer for Long-Term Sustainment
April 9, 2026
If you treat legacy like a transaction, you’ll keep paying for it. Many OEMs think of end-of-life and sustainment transfers as a simple handoff. You document the product, pick a vendor, issue a PO, and move on. But what happens when that “simple” PO fails an audit? Or when a critical DoD program is grounded because that…
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…
Legacy Assurance vs. Just in Time (JIT) Procurement
May 10, 2018
Innovative ways of thinking are tantamount to making changes in procedural methods. Just in Time (JIT) procurement for acquiring EOL’d embedded boards is often not an option for Legacy Equipment Manufacturing (LEM). Once an EOL notice has been issued and the parts for your system are no longer in production you’ll want to know the…