TRaC ready with equipment-test programme for LPPV

TRaC is equipped to provide a range of testing services, notably in areas such as Safety and EMC (Electro-Magnetic Compatibility). The company already works closely with Millbrook Proving Ground, where vehicles are tested in respect of their mobility against a Battlefield Mission (BFM), and has established procedures to schedule programmes of testing in both arenas.

The LPPV programme, which aims to provide the Services with a new vehicle that will offer greatly increased protection to small, highly mobile teams, was defined in 2008 and is now at the stage of evaluation of initial vehicle offerings from multiple manufacturers. When it enters service, LPPV can be expected to carry an ever-increasing electronic-equipment payload in categories including communications, surveillance and electronic counter-measures. Only comprehensive testing to a demanding specification can provide the assurance that systems will operate – and inter-operate – with total reliability when called on to do so. TRaC has demonstrated over many years that it can apply the testing rigour needed to provide those assurances.

As with all classes of armoured vehicle, the platform selected for the LPPV programme will present a uniquely challenging operating environment for the equipment it carries, in mechanical, thermal, electrical and radiated-interference terms. As with all such programmes, LPPV specifies with some precision the test regime that equipment intended for installation in the platform must undergo, embodied in the System Requirement Document or SRD. TRaC has a well-established process for carrying out such tests, having long experience of working in previous programmes, and the Company is fully accredited to all the requisite security aspects covering this class of work.