Depot-Level Remanufacturing and Repair for Critical Defense Systems

A practical sustainment path for aging systems, obsolete parts, depot overflow, and mission-critical equipment.

When mission-critical equipment fails or requires deeper maintenance, customers need a practical path that avoids costly replacement, long lead times, and shrinking sources of supply. Remanufacturing and repair give defense programs a way to restore critical assets, extend service life, and keep equipment moving back toward the field. Often, the organic depot is backlogged, and the OEM offers no practical solutions, leading to decreased operational availability for critically needed assets.

At Parts Life, Inc., we help customers restore capability, extend asset life, and reduce sustainment costs through depot-quality remanufacturing and repair. Our work gives programs a controlled path to keep critical systems operational when lead times, obsolescence, or depot capacity create risk. As a depot overflow partner, Parts Life applies engineering-driven remanufacturing processes that restore assets to serviceable condition while identifying opportunities to improve reliability, reduce maintenance demand, and extend service life.

For customers supporting engines, drive systems, aircraft armament equipment, ground support equipment, and electro-mechanical assemblies, that means faster return to service, controlled technical execution, and more flexibility in how sustainment gets done.

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Proven Past Performance in Depot-Level Remanufacturing for Defense Sustainment

Parts Life has supported this work across programs for DLA Aviation and NAVSUP, including repair and overhaul of Quick Engine Change engines, Constant Speed Drives, and related systems. These efforts included evaluation, repair, modification, testing, engineering order execution, and configuration control to restore systems back to serviceable condition in accordance with technical requirements.

Under DLA contract SPRPA1-20-P-Z038 in support of NAVSUP, Parts Life executed a comprehensive remanufacture and sustainment effort on the Quick Engine Change (QEC) engine, restoring a critical capability back to the fleet. The scope addressed both mechanical and electrical subsystems through full evaluation, overhaul, upgrade, testing, and validation to ensure reliable, repeatable performance in operational environments. In addition to remanufacturing existing assets, Parts Life supplemented the effort with newly manufactured units to seed the rotatable pool and establish a scalable sustainment pathway for a DMSMS-impacted system. This hybrid approach combined reverse engineering, remanufacture, and new production to improve asset availability, stabilize fleet support, and reduce the risk of recurring shortages.

In programs where depot capacity is constrained, Parts Life provides a qualified depot-level alternative, including work scopes where we serve as an approved source for repair and sustainment execution outside of government depots. This allows customers to maintain momentum on critical programs without waiting on limited internal capacity. Our customers preserve readiness, avoid unnecessary replacement costs, and maintain support for critical equipment through a trusted, compliant repair pathway. The value to our customer compounds when remanufacturing scales into larger, more complex sustainment programs. Through DeVal Lifecycle Support, our integrated capability expands into aircraft armament equipment, weapons loaders, trailers, and legacy ground support systems.

DeVal Lifecycle Support- Approved Non-Organic Depot-Level Source for Remanufacturing and Repair.

For NAVAIR Lakehurst, DeVal has supported the remanufacture and repair of F/A-18 aircraft armament equipment, including launchers, bomb racks, and associated assemblies. This work included block swaps, actuator repair, harness refurbishment, coatings, and testing, all performed in close coordination with Navy stakeholders.

DeVal is also an approved non-depot source for critical remanufacturing processes, including LAU block swaps and CSI and CAI items. This provides immediate value to NAVAIR programs that require depot overflow support while maintaining strict compliance standards.

For the customer, that means critical equipment gets returned to service with the technical rigor, traceability, and program alignment these systems require. It also creates depot overflow capacity when the organic depot resources are stretched.

That same philosophy applies to ground support and modernization programs. Through long-running CILOP and trailer conversion efforts, DeVal has helped customers extend the useful life of existing assets through engineered upgrades, improved reliability, and reduced maintenance requirements. Instead of replacing entire systems, customers are able to modernize what they already own and continue using proven equipment longer.  Customers have more control over cost, schedule, and sustainment outcomes while protecting operational readiness.

Across Parts Life and DeVal, our craft is backed by in-house repair, machining, testing, coatings, configuration control, and AS9100D-certified quality systems, giving customers a dependable partner for repair, refurbishment, modernization, and depot-level remanufacturing.

Watch: Remanufacturing Expertise Behind the 5R Solution

In this video series, Parts Life and DeVal's CEO Sam Thevanayagam and Rich Pennisi, Director of Remanufacturing, explain how decades of remanufacturing experience, lean process discipline, and low-volume, high-mix production expertise support military remanufacturing and repair.

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Decades of Remanufacturing Experience Applied to Defense Sustainment

Rich shares how 28 years of remanufacturing experience, including 24 years in the automotive aftermarket, shaped his approach to restoring complex assets for military customers.

Lean Processes That Improve Turnaround Time

Rich explains how lean principles, operational excellence, and flow management help control quality, cycle time, and throughput in remanufacturing programs.

Low-Volume, High-Mix Remanufacturing for Defense Programs

Defense sustainment often requires small quantities of highly specialized components. Rich discusses how DeVal is structured to respond to changing requirements, specialized work scopes, and unique customer needs.

Parts Life, Inc. is a certified AS9100D engineering service provider, manufacturer, and alternate source supplier for DMSMS and obsolete replacement components on military systems and subsystems. Our value-added reverse engineering processes address missing or incomplete technical data needed prior to manufacturing. Services, such as R.O.P.E.® (Rapid Obsolescence Planning and Execution) and 5R® (Reverse Engineering, Remanufacturing, Recertify, Repair, Replicate) deliver manufacturable technical data with source approval to manufacture replacement parts. In our Prototype Integration Facility, parts and components are manufactured and tested for form, fit, and function to ensure each piece meets and surpasses OEM requirements.

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