DADTMA

FTL has worked with most every kind of image acquisition platform, including UAV’s, UUV’s, and USV’s. Emerging “digital twin” approaches for maintaining electronic records of asset maintenance require the efficient combination of many types of images and data. To help the Navy electronically manage asset maintenance, FTL developed “DADTMA”, or Distributed Acquisition Digital Twin Maintenance Architecture, a software tool for acquiring and managing maintenance data in the field. FTL’s DADTMA quickly and inexpensively enables fleetwide trend monitoring, predictions, and informed planning. DADTMA acts as middleware between existing maintenance and data reporting software currently in use, automates maintenance procedures with serial connected inspection tools and intelligent software tools, and stores the design and maintenance history of military and commercial assets on the cloud in a hierarchical, relational database architecture. The result is a vast, secure, searchable asset digital twin consisting of disparate datatypes throughout asset and fleet lifetimes, accessible to any authorized personnel for planning, data collection and analysis activities. This new technology is asset, datatype, and procedure agnostic, aiding maintenance and assessment of any asset type from military fighter jets to offshore wind turbines, fitting seamlessly into current maintenance procedures. DADTMA is currently being piloted at the Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center Southeast in Jacksonville, Florida.