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V29A Improved Point Defense Target Acquisition System MK-23 (IPD/TAS)

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Overview

An Improved Point Defense Target Acquisition System MK-23 technician performs preventive and corrective maintenance using appropriate documentation, tools, and test equipment. The technician analyzes casualties, isolates faults, and operates, tests, aligns, and repairs equipment, the system, and its interfaces with other systems.

Core Skills

  • Equipment failure analysis and fault isolation
  • System and intersystem interface repair
  • Equipment testing and precision alignment

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

MK-23 experience in preventive and corrective maintenance, fault isolation, and equipment and system-interface repair transfers directly to industrial electronics troubleshooting.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on industrial electronics troubleshooting lab that covers diagnosing faulty equipment and verifying repairs against equipment documentation.

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.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
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 V29A

    [1] NEC entry "V29A - Improved Point Defense Target Acquisition System MK-23 (IPD/TAS)"; cached text line 13729; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Equipment failure analysis and fault isolation, System and intersystem interface repair, Equipment testing and precision alignment, 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)

Defense contractor jobs for V29A

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