Past performance
Fielded, not just qualified.
GCI delivers production ready sustainment solutions, not replacement semiconductors on a shelf. The measure is the system back in service.
In service on
- UH-60 Black Hawk
- F-16 Fighting Falcon
- AGM-65 Maverick
- B-1 Lancer
- B-52 Stratofortress
- MIM-104 Patriot
- [More platforms: clear with GCI]
Selected work
On the platform, in service.
UH-60 Black Hawk
[Confirm system for public use]
A form, fit and function replacement that keeps Black Hawk helicopters flying, in the words of Sikorsky's own senior staff engineer.
F-16 Fighting Falcon
Radar circuit card assembly
GCI circuit card assemblies for the F-16 radar. The USAF's chief avionics engineer for the F-16 credits GCI with cost effective, proven obsolescence solutions that save tens of millions of dollars.
AGM-65 Maverick
AN/DSM-157 test set
Circuit card solutions for the test set used in Maverick missile testing, replacing legacy cards that are no longer manufactured but remain critical to system support.
B-52 Stratofortress
Windshield wiper speed control
A resistor assembly for the B-52 windshield wiper speed control. The range of GCI work runs from a single assembly like this to a full circuit card.
- [Photo at launch]
MIM-104 Patriot
Battery environmental control unit
A variable frequency drive solution for the Patriot missile battery environmental control unit, redesigned for the conditions it actually operates in.
UH-60 Black Hawk
Global Circuit Innovations provided a form, fit and function solution to keep our Black Hawk helicopters flying.
F-16 Fighting Falcon
GCI offers cost effective, proven obsolescence solutions to keep planes flying and save the USAF tens of millions of dollars.
Mission sustainment
What program offices get from GCI
- 01
Complete sustainment
The whole obsolescence problem, not one isolated component.
- 02
Mission readiness
Success means aircraft and systems available for the mission, not a part on a shelf.
- 03
Source approval expertise
The technical data package and Source Approval Request that get a new source approved.
- 04
System level integration
Replacements proven in the next higher assembly, not just on the bench.
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Rapid production transition
Engineering and manufacturing share one facility, so prototypes move straight to production.
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Trusted domestic manufacturing
Designed, built and tested in Colorado Springs under AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015.
Contract history
DoD production and research awards
GCI work for the Department of Defense is performed under DLA, AFWERX, AFRL and RIF (OSD) funding contracts, and through SBIR and STTR awards. Phase III SBIR awards from the U.S. Air Force carry that research into production.
Awarded a Phase I SBIR by the Sensors Technology Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, for die extracted and repackaged optical hybrid integrated circuits.
- Contract awards
- [Clear with GCI]
- SBIR / STTR Phase II
- [Clear with GCI]
- SBIR Phase III
- U.S. Air Force [customers: clear with GCI]
- Buying commands
- [Clear with GCI]
[Contract numbers, platforms and NSNs: clear with GCI before adding. Until then this section carries only what GCI publishes today.]
In the community
Where the DMSMS community meets, GCI presents.
- DMSMS Conference, presenting on re-engineering obsolete FPGAs and on LRU, CCA and microcircuit obsolescence solutions without system redesign
- Parts Management Working Group, invited participant
- Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate, invited to present
- Tinker AFB Industry Day and Northern Utah Aerospace Outreach to Industry
- PMMC Conference, DMSMS and obsolescence capabilities panel
- EMPC, the European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference
Have an obsolete part on your hands?
Tell us the part number or NSN and the platform. An engineer will scope the path to a replacement.