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Boeing, Singapore Defense Agency To Develop Analytics For Aircraft Performance

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 29th, 2018

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Boeing [BA] and a Singaporean defense agency on June 28 agreed on a joint research and development project on data analytics to better understand how well military aircraft are performing and predict future needs for operations and maintenance.The deal is between Boeing’s nearly year-old Global Services segment and Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA). Boeing Global Services stood up last July to capture business related to the operations and maintenance of defense and commercial aircraft.Boeing’s goal is to grow its…

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