The Pentagon's "Defense Innovation Unit Experimental" is currently working with tech companies to implement AI, machine learning and automation technologies in military jets to create an AI program that can predict plane failures before they occur. They envision a system that would analyze all kinds of factors, from the plane's internal performance parameters to its geographic location, and inform maintenance crews about which plane is in the most need of repairs. "F-16s will benefit from predictive maintenance as a way to inform pilots of which aircraft are at the highest risk in terms of being unreliable. We pinpoint systems such as engines and subsystems such as the propulsion," says Ed Abbo, C3 IoT president and CTO. The C3 IoT platform already allows the Pentagon to aggregate and store enormous amounts of disparate information on a unified cloud-based data image, which runs on Amazon Web Services.