GE Aviation was selected by Bell Textron to provide the Health Awareness System as part of Team Invictus for the Bell 360 Invictus competitive prototype, a part of the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. The health awareness system integrates decades of GE’s proven health management technologies on rotorcraft with their vehicle management system on fixed wing to drive increased operational safety and availability of the fleet.
“GE Aviation is committed to delivering a health awareness solution fusing our rotary wing system that has accumulated in excess of 2.5M flight hours and incorporates 4,500 unique onboard vibration algorithms with our fixed wing configurable onboard maintenance system,” said Christin Rauche, Connected Aircraft executive for GE Aviation. “This integrated solution will enable Bell to demonstrate key operational and sustainment objectives using its ground-based enterprise systems to provide the US Army with data driven decision making, more efficient troubleshooting and a comprehensive view into aircraft operational availability.”

GE Aviation’s Health Awareness System is an end-to-end solution that advances traditional rotorcraft Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) capabilities by combining it with proven fixed wing aircraft health management solutions. The system includes autonomously gathering and transmission of rotorcraft system configuration, health, usage and maintenance data.
GE’s on-board and off-board system securely manage data transmission from the aircraft, decode and process the health state of the rotorcraft and execute maintenance analytics. The system integrates seamlessly with enduring-fleet-capable, modular additional ground systems such as Bell’s MissionLink for data distribution and visualisation to predict maintenance events and increase mission readiness for the fleet.