Jane Edwards
Lockheed Martin used the Department of Defense’s 5G network to demonstrate the capability of its analytics tools to improve aircraft readiness by providing maintainers with real-time data to detect aircraft issues and speed up the decision-making process.
Lockheed developed and demonstrated its applications before U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army officials as part of the Network-enabled Analytics for Readiness 5G initiative, the company said Monday.
The company integrated its NeAR application with portable devices and found that the technology could provide technical professionals with sensor-based analytics and flight data recordings to improve aircraft maintenance.
“This proof of concept demonstrated that our analytics tools are scalable and portable across multiple platforms to improve maintenance at the speed of relevance,” said Reeves Valentine, vice president of land and maritime solutions at Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business.
One of Lockheed’s applications provided maintainers with a capability to perform artificial intelligence-based cognitive search on all historical aircraft maintenance data to help them identify aircraft issues.
Lockheed said NeAR is part of the FutureG program of the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
