The Readiness Challenge: Can AI Help? — Ep. 308

Podcast: The Aerospace Advantage · The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Opublikowano: 2026-09-19

Episode Summary: 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 wi...