AEXA Aerospace has contracted to redesign the Electronic Warfare PTS on the B-52. 

AEXA Aerospace will redesign equipment that sustains America’s deterrence.
AEXA Aerospace, a company that provides solutions for training and operational support, will produce a prototype to update the Electronic Warfare PTS.
The EWPTS is used to test the defense system of the B-52 aircraft under the Air Force Global Strike Command AFSTRAT-AIR. Air Force Global Strike Command is a Major Command of the United States Air Force, headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. AFGSC provides combat-ready forces to conduct strategic nuclear deterrence and global strike operations in support of combatant commanders. The command is seeking to update the current equipment as its underperformance affects crew safety and mission fleet availability.
“As innovators at AEXA, we recognized the innovative approach of STRIKEWERX’s novel methods to quickly solve challenges faced by the Air Force Global Strike Command using new pathways to seek the best solution from the industry,” said Dr. Fernando De La Peña Llaca, president and CEO of AEXA Aerospace. “I’m impressed and ready to deliver our innovative prototype in a couple of months.”
The current EWPTS increases maintenance time by 200–300% and repairing faulty test sets require up to six hours with a less-than 40% success rate.
“The CIC tackling the PTS redesign and rebuild is quite the feat, seeing as this test set has been a problem over the years and is a rather important piece of test equipment to further propel our B-52 platform in the foreseeable future,” said Master Sgt. Justin Countryman, project champion for the EWPTS.
This effort between CIC, STRIKEWERX and AEXA Aerospace aims to produce a portable design that is easier to repair, easier to use in diagnosing equipment failure and allows for greater availability in extreme weather.