ABSTRACT
Recently, the Deployment and Sustainment Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/HES) directed a program of research focused on enhancing the task environment for aircraft maintenance, in particular PDM, technicians. One aspect of the program, referred to as Integrated Technical Information for the Air Logistics Centers (ITI-ALC), was to insert advanced technologies into the PDM task environment. Examples of such technologies include wearable computers, speech-to-text and textto-speech interfaces, electronic technical orders, intelligent agents, web browser presentation systems, audio and video consultation capabilities, and a bar code capability to facilitate parts tracking. A second aspect of ITIALC was to demonstrate the insertion of advanced technologies into the PDM process.
