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V14B AN/TPX-42A(V) Shipboard DAIR Maintenance Technician

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Overview

The AN/TPX-42A(V) Shipboard DAIR Maintenance Technician performs organizational or intermediate maintenance on Shipboard Direct Altitude and Identity Readout systems. The technician conducts maintenance checks, alignments, and trouble analysis using general and special purpose test equipment, built-in tests, and diagnostic computer programs.

Core Skills

  • Built-in test and diagnostic program troubleshooting
  • Special-purpose electronic test equipment operation
  • DAIR system alignment and preventive checks

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Shipboard DAIR maintenance using test equipment, diagnostic programs, alignment, and trouble analysis transfers directly to diagnosing and testing commercial and industrial electronic equipment.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on industrial electronics troubleshooting lab covering fault diagnosis and post-repair functional testing.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V14B

    [1] NEC entry "V14B - AN/TPX-42A(V) Shipboard DAIR Maintenance Technician"; cached text line 13161; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Built-in test and diagnostic program troubleshooting, Special-purpose electronic test equipment operation, DAIR system alignment and preventive checks, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  2. O*NET: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

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