Developing health management for current and future inventory aircraft

Designing and implementing health management systems for current and future aircraft poses many challenges, including interfacing with legacy onboard and offboard hardware and software systems, determining and justifying new functional requirements, and validating and verifying a robust, scalable system. Lessons learned from a current research and development program as well as prior health management system development experiences are presented as a road map to focus on the process of system development and integration. This paper also provides an overview of the concept and the coordination required to develop a working health management system.