Total Quality Systems Incorporated (TQS) provides continuous process and product improvement solutions to commercial and military industries. With a broad experience base in military systems, logistics, mathematics, and software development, in 1996 TQS became a founding member of the Aerospace Engineering Spectrum (AES) business joint venture. AES was awarded the Design Engineering Program II (DEP II) small business contract by Hill Air Force Base, Utah in 1996. This contract was a five year order, seven year delivery contract. TQS was awarded a task order on this contract by the F-16 Supply Chain Manager to devise a process to reduce F-16 maintenance costs while not degrading reliability or performance. This led to the creation of the "Falcon Flex" program that has facilitated substantial cost savings by employing techniques such as Performance Based Acquisition (PBA). TQS has also assisted the Air Force with research into methods of reducing awaiting parts (AWPs), mission incapabable (MICAP), and diminishing manufacturing source (DMS) issues and problems. TQS developed a reliability engineering toolset called DSide to augment the research being conducted. DSide is a combination of classical reliability engineering tools in a single integrated package. DSide can help plan reliability tests (sample size and test time), simulate "what-if" scenarios to estimate maintenance costs, estimate system and subsystem reliability, implement and monitor reliability growth plans, and analyze future and present risks. In July 2000 TQS began development of the Defense Repair Information Logistics Server (DRILS) using a rapid spiral development process. The first software iteration was delivered to Ogden ALC at the end of September 2000. TQSs Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation System (IFDIS) product won Department of Defense awards in 2010 and 2012.
