Readiness is one of the biggest challenges facing the Air Force as Airmen strive to meet surging demand with an aircraft inventory that is old and small. Service leaders have prioritized boosting readiness, which involves buying more spare parts, qualifying more suppliers, retaining more seasoned maintainers, and continue to buy new aircraft. To be truly successful, we also need to master the various readiness data sets so that we can better understand when, how, and why aircraft are facing issues…while also gaining better insights about what fixes will deliver the best results. We chat with Melissa Sutherland, executive vice president and airpower market lead at Booz Allen, to learn more about how AI might help crack this challenge.

Guests

Melissa SutherlandExecutive Vice President & Air Power Market Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton

John VenableSenior Fellow for Airpower Studies, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Host

Heather PenneyDirector of Studies and Research, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

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