The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Joint Logistics mission initiative, in partnership with the U.S. Special Operations Command’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, developed and deployed a machine learning tool known as the Work Unit Code Corrector, to improve the overall quality of H-60 helicopter maintenance records for improved fleet health reporting.
The WUC Corrector uses natural language processing to analyze freeform maintenance record text to revise unit codes and maintenance time entries, which are alphanumeric codes associated with specific aircraft component types and resources required to perform a given maintenance task. The model not only revises historical maintenance records, it also provides valuable suggestions to maintainers for correcting unit codes in real-time.