TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -Lt. Col. Dave Grauel, BFT program manager, and other personnel visited here Oct. 20 to attend a ceremony that honored depot technician's completion of 100,000 BFT installation kits.
They also attended an in-process review, and toured the depot.
Personnel in the Systems Integration and Support (SIS), Production Management (PM) and Production Engineering directorates designed and manufactured more than 105,000 kits prior to the ceremony.
The kits include a switchbox, cables, brackets, mounts and other associated hardware. They are used to equip shelters, Humvees, trucks, and Stryker and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles with BFTs.
Tobyhanna Army Depot is the Defense DepartmentAca,!a,,cs largest center for the repair, overhaul and fabrication of a wide variety of electronics systems and components, from tactical field radios to the ground terminals for the defense satellite communications network. TobyhannaAca,!a,,cs missions support all branches of the Armed Forces.
About 5,600 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 commandAca,!a,,cs mission is to research, develop, acquire, field and sustain communications, command, control computer, intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors capabilities for the Armed Forces.
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