FORT STEWART, Ga. — Soldiers assigned to the “Maintain Battalion,” 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, began fielding the new state-of-the-art shelters known as the Next Generation Automatic Test Set in August 2021 and completed fielding in September 2021 at Fort Stewart.
The NGATS replaces the legacy Direct Support Electrical Systems Test Sets platform and provides quality maintenance and repair capability to Soldiers in combat and field operations.
According to U.S. Army Operational Test Command test officers, “NGATS is designed to provide a general-purpose mobile and modular diagnostic test system to support testing digital and analog electronic hardware and software for a variety of Army weapon systems.”