On the Job at Tobyhanna

By Jacqueline BoucherJune 28, 2010

On the Job at Tobyhanna
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TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, PA. - Special Projects and Fabrication Branch employees fabricate, repair, modify, upgrade and test various cables, harnesses, electronic assemblies and printed circuit boards for many different internal and external customers.

Employees support the warfighter by working on a variety of equipment such as cables, harnesses and electronic assemblies for the Advanced Field Artillery Data System Power Distribution Box, cable and harness assemblies for the TPN-19 Landing and Control Central (radar set) and cable and panel assemblies for electronic shelters and vans. Employees also fabricate new printed circuit boards for internal and external customers.

Tobyhanna Army Depot is the largest full-service Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) maintenance and logistics support facility in the Department of Defense. Employees repair, overhaul and fabricate electronics systems and components, from tactical field radios to the ground terminals for the defense satellite communications network.

Tobyhanna's missions support all branches of the Armed Forces. The depot is the Army Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for Communications-Electronics, Avionics, and Missile Guidance and Control Systems and the Air Force Technology Repair Center (TRC) for ground communications and electronics.

About 5,700 personnel are employed at Tobyhanna, which is located in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Tobyhanna Army Depot is part of the U.S. Army CECOM Life Cycle Management Command. Headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J., the command's mission is to research, develop, acquire, field and sustain communications, command, control, computer, intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors capabilities for the Armed Forces.