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V89B AN/URN-32 Navigational Set, Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) System Technician

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Overview

AN/URN-32 Tactical Air Navigation System Technicians perform organizational level preventive and corrective maintenance on the AN/URN-32 TACAN system. They use test equipment, built-in tests, diagnostic computer programs, and technical manuals to analyze problems and restore the equipment to optimum operating condition.

Core Skills

  • Fault isolation using built-in test equipment
  • Equipment troubleshooting with diagnostic computer programs
  • Technical manual-guided equipment performance restoration

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

TACAN preventive and corrective maintenance using test equipment, diagnostic programs, and technical manuals transfers directly to diagnosing and restoring commercial electronic equipment.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on troubleshooting exercise on a commercial electronic system, documenting fault isolation, repair, and post-repair testing against its service manual.

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

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Experience isolating TACAN faults and restoring equipment with general and special-purpose test equipment supports telecommunications equipment troubleshooting and repair verification.

How to prepare: Take a practical telecommunications equipment course that includes circuit-diagram interpretation, fault isolation, and testing repaired equipment against specifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V89B

    [1] NEC entry "V89B - AN/URN-32 Navigational Set, Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) System Technician"; cached text line 15575; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Fault isolation using built-in test equipment, Equipment troubleshooting with diagnostic computer programs, Technical manual-guided equipment performance restoration, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00), Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

  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)

  3. O*NET: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

Defense contractor jobs for V89B

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