Statistical Assessment of the Impatc of Integrated Diagnostic System on Aircraft Fleet Management

Aeronautica Militare Italiana (AMI - Italian Air Force) is getting more and more involved in humanitarian operations, aero-medical evacuations in the event of natural disaster and environmental protection. This new concept of operations defines an updated modern vision of the military force and enhances its role to serve the Nation. Moreover, new tasks call for an improved system operational readiness, significantly greater than the traditional one related to military operations. Obviously, a war is planned, a crisis is not. Recent AMI operations have highlighted a new scenario for the deployment of air transport fleets: future years are likely to show an even more deep evolution of AMI role, during both in country and international airlift operations. AMI managed to meet these requirements by means of a new airlift fleet and a deep organizational change into its supportability system. The present work shows that recently an actual improvement aiming at this target has been achieved, by analyzing field data collected during the management of two distinct airlift fleets over the last decade.