A Site Acceptance Test Plan was undertaken to determine whether or not the system was working properly.

The radar achieved the Site Acceptance Test on Feb. 24 and was commissioned March 5.

The radar passed its site acceptance test conducted for the Indonesian air force in February, a statement by TRS said.

The equipment was installed and a Site Acceptance Test Plan was obtained to show the equipment was functioning properly.

"The radar proceeded smoothly through a site acceptance test in August and now is being used by the Bahrain Defense Force for air surveillance," the company said.

On Site Acceptance Tests are scheduled for completion in September 2004, way ahead of the RADARSAT-2 launch date.

The next milestone in the Maintenance Workshop's calendar is preparation for CMTC's contractor Site Acceptance Test (SAT) II in which 130 vehicles will be tested with WES equipment.

From a logistics perspective, the Life Cycle Management The Life Cycle Management (LCM) team also jumped willingly into the fray, lending their technical expertise for equipment performance verification tests, such as Factory Acceptance and Site Acceptance tests.

"The Site Acceptance Test verifies Vigilare, as installed at the Northern Regional Operational Center site, is able to interface with all the relevant external systems and is ready for operational testing," Arthur Mamalis, Boeing Defense Australia Project Vigilare program director, said in a statement.