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Air Force

Boeing Aims to Use 5G for Aircraft Maintenance Improvements

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, August 15th, 2023

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Boeing Aims to Use 5G for Aircraft Maintenance Improvements

A Near Earth Autonomy drone examines the skin of a C-17 in a hangar at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (Boeing Photo)

Boeing [BA] is aiming to increase military aircraft mission capable rates and increase military technician safety through two efforts leveraging 5G technology--Autonomous Aircraft Inspection (AAI), using drones to take high resolution photos of aircraft to spot damage, and Augmented Training Operations Maintenance (ATOM), which uses a Microsoft [MSFT] Hololens to allow military forces "secure reach back" to industry representatives to help fix parts. "The [AAI] pictures that are being taken and the data being captured and analyzed is immensely valuable…

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