Total Quality Systems Inc (TQS) in partnership with Universal Synaptics Corporation (USC) were announced winners of the 2012 Department of Defense Maintenance Symposium and Exhibition Great Ideas Competition held every year. This year, the Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation System (IFDIS) was selected as the winner. This is the second time that IFDIS has won the competition, a feat never achieved before in the history of the symposium.