Assessing Potential for Aircraft Service Offering
Aeralis and Aerogility have inked an MoU aimed at evaluating opportunities to provide an aircraft service offering in the military light fast jet market for training and operational air support roles. The companies will collaborate on a digital enterprise model to aid in development and marketing of Aeralis’ aircraft service and digital offering.
The MoU covers a range of Aerogility services, including proven capabilities in developing AI-based enterprise digital decision support solutions, focussing on optimising aircraft service whole-life costs and aircraft availability. This will help shape how design of the Aerside system, common Integrated Logistics Support system, spares, and trained technicians, deployed across a fleet of Aeralis variants, will deliver significant benefit, maximising aircraft availability at reduced cost.
The agreement is another example of the partnership approach Aeralis has adopted, following agreements made with enterprises such as Thales UK, Atkins, Siemens, Martin-Baker and Hamble Aerostructures. Aeralis has also recently signed collaborative MoUs with Ascent Flight Training and AirTanker, marking a decisive step in progress of the proposed aircraft’s development. The company is currently in Phase Two of a three-year contract with the RAF’s Rapid Capabilities Office, and most recently was awarded a £9 million (US$11 million) digital engineering contract from the British MoD.
Aerogility works with major civil and military aerospace entities, its software running intelligent ’what-if’ analysis and detailed business simulations of a company’s operational performance. It helps companies make better-informed business-critical decisions, delivering higher availability, lower costs and safer operations. Aerogility’s model-based AI uses intelligent agents to represent everything from aircraft and components to facilities and personnel.
“Aerogility will utilise its innovative and proven model-based AI capabilities to simulate the dynamics of the Aeralis entry into the market, and disruption of legacy service offerings with this transformational aircraft. This is a perfect application of Aerogility’s powerful digital enterprise model technology,” stated Aerogility CEO, Gary Vickers.
Aeralis CEO, Tristan Crawford, added “Building on the strength of our current partnerships, this MoU demonstrates that Aeralis will be working with the best-in-class in AI software to enhance our digital enterprise model”.
