Thursday, November 5, 2026 | 11:00AM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE

A downed aircraft and an urgent facilities work order fail the same way. The published procedure stops answering, and the next step gets rebuilt from memory across shifts, systems and the people who happened to be on.

For the aircraft, that is history in the maintenance system, sister-aircraft records, the tech order, supply status and a cannibalization call made over the radio. For the building, it is the CMMS, the equipment manual, the asset’s repair history, and a dispatch decision made from a phone call. In both cases the hours go to reconstruction before anyone turns a wrench, and the readiness or uptime number does not show the cost until later.

Across the Department of War, federal civil agencies and the contractors who hold their sustainment and base operations contracts, maintenance leaders are examining how decision support can shorten the path from an open problem to an approved action without taking authority away from the person who signs the work order.

Featured Speakers:

CW4 Reginald Oliver, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Capability Program Executive Aviation, U.S. Army

CW4 Reginald Oliver
Chief Digital Transformation Officer,
Capability Program Executive Aviation,
U.S. Army
Nick Weir, VP of Mission Engineering, Legion Intelligence

Nick Weir
VP of Mission Engineering,
Legion Intelligence
John Breeden II, Moderator & Contributing Editor, FedInsider

John Breeden II
Moderator & Contributing Editor,
FedInsider