068 – “Slam Sticks Accelerating Maintenance”

Author: Stephen Hanly Company: Mide Technology Phone: (781) 306-0609 Email: shanly@mide.com Slam Stick was developed for the Navy under the DoD Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) ONR BAA RIF 11-023 and provides engineers a cost-effective wireless vibration, temperature, and atmospheric pressure data logger that can be used anywhere in the world to quickly identify system problems. […]

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050 – “C-5M Cargo Floor Mapper”

Author: Stephen Jogerst Company: 436 MXG USAF Phone: stephen.jogerst@us.af.mil Email: (302) 677-2193 Aircraft maintenance personnel have no method to search or retrieve historic maintenance data by precise coordinates on a given aircraft. This capability limitation of the current Maintenance Data Collection (MDC) systems has resulted in countless instances in which maintainers are unable to determine […]

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045 – “718 AMXS Thermal Imagery”

Author: MSgt John A. Kester Company: 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Kadena AB Phone: (315)-634-6347 Email: john.kester@us.af.mil The United States Air Force needs troubleshooting tools that are effective across specialties. Some aircraft are very new, and some may have been worked on by our grandfathers. Maintenance of these airframes spans a broad variety of system types […]

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