Boeing Taps Pelico AI to Streamline C-17 Maintenance

The collaboration shifts Boeing away from legacy, spreadsheet-based management, replacing fragmented data with a unified, real-time workspace. This platform synchronizes supply chain, engineering, and maintenance teams, allowing them to anticipate bottlenecks before they impact aircraft availability. Turbo Sjogren, vice president of Government Services at Boeing, noted that the technology provides a necessary bird's-eye view of sustainment challenges, essential for maintaining aging fleets that require decades of support.

This agreement follows a successful trial within Boeing’s commercial spare parts division, where the platform demonstrated a clear ability to reduce backlogs. Tarik Benabdallah, CEO of Pelico, emphasized that the software bridges the gap between digital planning and factory floor reality. Beyond the C-17 project, both companies are already exploring how these digital tools might be scaled to support sustainment operations across other aerospace platforms.