5 January 2012, Endicott, NY — D & R Technical Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification. The company’s ISO 9001:2008 certificate was awarded by Intertek, a leading provider of quality services for a wide range of industries in over 100 countries around the world.

D & R has demonstrated compliance with the updated standard for a quality management system as set forth by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in all four of its core business areas — Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Services, Technical Publications, Training Program Development and Delivery, and 3D Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Technology. This certification ensures that D & R’s government and commercial customers will have added confidence in D & R’s ability to meet today’s demand for high quality product and services, delivered on schedule at an affordable price.

24 October 2011, Endicott, New York — D & R Technical Solutions, Inc. won a multi-million, multi-year competitive contract to provide Integrated Logistics Support services for the US Army. The prime contract was awarded to Astec Industries, Inc. of Chattanooga, TN, who will manufacture and provide the Army with up to 24 Portable Asphalt Mixing Plants. D & R was awarded a contract from Astec to perform the Integrated Logistics Support activities including the development of Technical Manuals, Training, Spares, Safety analysis, and a number of other studies and analyses.

September 2011, Brooklyn, NY — D & R successfully completed an update of the R160 Railcar 3D Troubleshooting Simulator software at New York City Transit’s (NYCT) Learning Center. The major component of this update was to include troubleshooting scenarios for the automated passenger door system on R160 cars provided by Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc. The previous iteration of this software only demonstrated fault isolation for the automated passenger door system on R160 cars built by Alstom Transport.

The R160 railcars are NYCT’s latest acquisition and incorporate state-of-the-art troubleshooting capability, utilizing an internal monitoring and diagnostic system and externally connected laptop computers with system level diagnostic software. The R160 3D Troubleshooting Simulator was developed by D & R as a tool to help familiarize NYCT maintainers with these latest troubleshooting technologies. The internals of the software are built on fully detailed 3D CAD models of R160 A-Cars and B-Cars, coupled together to form two five-car units to make a 10-car train. The software operates on a LAN network consisting of an instructor station and 10 student workstations. The instructor sets up fault scenarios for the students to troubleshoot and monitors student progress real-time. Results are saved by the instructor station for later comparative analysis. The latest update also included several enhancements to the user interface.