The move, implemented by QinetiQ North America subsidiary Westar Aerospace & Defense Group Inc., relocated the Program Executive Office Aviation, the Data Warehouse and the Aviation Missile, Research and Development Engineering Center to the Army's Logistics Support Activity.

Officials say the Logistics Support Activity is part of AMCOM's Conditioned Based Maintenance-Data Warehouse strategy to transition from a "reactive, fault-based maintenance program to a predictive and reliability-centered approach to maintenance," the release said.

By loading aircraft data and organizing it for analysis, officials say the CBM-DW will eventually develop prognostics that predict when an aircraft component will fail based upon the conditions under which it has been flown.

"The end goal is to eliminate unnecessary time-based inspections, decrease unscheduled, reactive maintenance, and increase unit readiness by enabling the soldier to order parts and schedule maintenance prior to component failure," Mary Akamatsu, Westar enterprise life cycle solutions division director, said in a statement.

"The combination of establishing a world-class scalable data warehouse within LOGSA (Logistics Support Activity) and deploying the first increment of the system delivery is a major step in the CBM-DW implementation strategy. LOGSA provides enterprise level hardware for the system's operation, expands our user base, and allows the data to be more widely available to the benefit of the Army aviation community."