Photo Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jackey Bratt, U.S. Navy.
A U.S. Army Soldier prepares to board a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter landing near Tafaria, Iraq in 2006. Historically military maintenance programs have relied on time-scheduled maintenance. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is looking into new aircraft maintenance technologies that could get safer aircraft back in the air faster.