Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions

Aircraft maintenance is critical to Air Force readiness. However, the 2014 drawdown and the retiring workforce have led to a shortage of maintainers and a skill and knowledge gap. To maintain high levels of readiness, innovative solutions are needed to accelerate the development of a junior maintainers to expertise while also leveraging the expertise and know-how of senior personnel. Design Interactive, Inc. (DI) created AUGMENTORTM, an AR application for maintenance troubleshooting and repair guidance, which was specifically designed to empower experts to capture, author, and distribute their expertise to help enterprises close the skill and knowledge gap. AUGMENTOR™ provides an intuitive authoring platform to create diagnostic methods and repair guides, saving these to a database that can be accessed by any other maintainer across the enterprise using Microsoft’s HoloLens. The proposed Phase II effort supports a development effort to add features specifically needed by the 367th TRSS and then a pilot program to validate the value to the TRSS after receiving a signed MOU to work with them in the Phase II.