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The Air Force has an initiative entitled, Subsystem Integration Technology (SUIT) to develop and demonstrate integration technology as applied to the traditional aircraft utility subsystems. Utility subsystems perform functions such as auxiliary power generation, environmental control, and fuel management. Commonly these different subsystems are developed independently and then interfaced when building a particular flight vehicle. The SUIT program considers all functions accomplished by the traditional utility subsystems to be responsibilities of a single entity called a utility suite. This suite is designed with overall vehicle level performance objectives rather than trying to maximize the performance of individual functions and is not bound to maintaining the traditional allocation of functions among the hardware labeled as fuel management, environmental control, or secondary power.

Traditional assembled store vibration testing techniques do not realistically simulate a store's captive flight environment. Extensive flight and laboratory testing has shown that an integrated acoustic and vibration shaker technique can realistically reproduce a store's captive flight vibration environment. This paper describes acoustic tests on six flight instrumented stores, giving details of physical setup, test procedure, and test results. Test procedures and analysis of test data are presented for those stores used to evaluate vibration shaker testing techniques.