The aviation maintenance technicians in today's United States Navy and Marine Corps Squadrons are highly motivated young men and women that bring unique demands to the training environments supporting them. The state of the art weapons systems emerging throughout the services would have been considered as fantasy or "Buck Rogers" until just a few years ago. As a result, the senior military managers can to longer rely on the ingenuity of the chief or sarge to provide the training necessary to support the military requirements for trained personnel. The young men and women are being tasked with maintaining highly sophisticated aircraft under the arduous conditions found afloat and in other adverse situations that can be found in the military environment. The F/A-18 Hornet aircraft, the LAMPS Mark III helicopter and the AV-8B Harrier are highly technical aircraft that have created exceptionally challenging maintenance training requirements. The thrust of this paper is designed to address those challenges and will use actual training strategies employed in the introduction of the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. Major issues to be addressed include: maintenance training in a high tech environment, Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) applications for the maintenance technician, cost benefits in the utilization of contractor support in FRAMP, and success of Instructional Systems Development strategies in the FRAMP.