OPTARION OptaFEP
Fleet managementThe challenge
Fleet availability is critical for mission success in an increasingly volatile environment.
Traditional static planning cycles and fragmented tools no longer suffice to ensure operational readiness.
Transparency, prediction, and user-centric design are essential to transform fleet management from reactive monitoring into a continuous, data-driven operational capability.
Our solution
OptaFEP (Fleet Execution & Planning) by HENSOLDT is a software-defined, mission-centric solution that provides real-time transparency and transforms fleet management into an integral part of the operational backbone. It delivers a complete, real-time overview of fleet status—including flight hours, maintenance cycles, and technical availability—across platforms, locations, and domains. OptaFEP coordinates personnel, material, and infrastructure efficiently through user-specific dashboards tailored for commanders, planners, and technicians.
Beyond documentation and planning, it connects aircraft maintenance systems, logistics, capacity planning, and external ERP environments, creating a continuous feedback loop between operation, maintenance, and planning. The system shifts fleet management from reactive maintenance to proactive control by enabling predictive planning, early anomaly detection, data sovereignty, continuous optimization, and seamless collaboration across user roles.
Designed as an open, integrated, and platform-independent solution, OptaFEP supports multinational mixed fleets and integrates with logistics and maintenance systems. It transforms data into actionable operational decisions using AI-supported analytics, scenario-based planning, and real-time mission feasibility validation.
Proven in dynamic multinational exercises, OptaFEP connects operations, maintenance, and decision-making in a shared data environment, delivering continuous, predictive, and mission-driven fleet readiness.
Features and benefits
Features
- Real-time fleet status monitoring: flight hours, maintenance cycles, technical availability
- Resource orchestration: coordination of personnel, material, and infrastructure
- User-centric dashboards tailored to commanders, planners, and technicians
- Integration of aircraft maintenance systems, logistics, capacity planning, and ERP environments (e.g., SAP-based SASPF)
- Predictive maintenance planning and early anomaly detection
- Data sovereignty enabling flexible, secure integration of diverse data sources
- Continuous optimization of maintenance events to reduce downtime
- Staged user and role concepts from technicians to technical-logistical managers
- Continuous capability delivery with direct user feedback loops
- Automated compliance and documentation based on real system usage
- Open, scalable, platform-independent architecture supporting mixed and multinational fleets
- AI-supported analytics for pattern recognition and availability improvement
- Scenario-based planning aligned with real mission constraints
- Real-time mission feasibility validation based on actual fleet status
- Interfaces to certification and personnel planning systems like Phoenix AMS
Benefits
- Enables transparent, real-time insight into fleet readiness across platforms and domains
- Transforms fleet management from reactive to predictive and proactive control
- Enhances operational sovereignty through integrated coordination of maintenance, logistics, and planning
- Supports continuous, adaptive fleet management with rapid response to changing mission demands
- Protects investments by integrating existing ERP and maintenance systems without replacement
- Facilitates multinational and cross-platform collaboration and interoperability
- Improves availability and efficiency through AI-driven analytics and data fusion
- Reduces downtime and stabilizes systems before failures occur
- Accelerates capability delivery from years to days via continuous development and user feedback
- Connects operations, maintenance, and decision-making in a unified data environment
- Provides a future-ready digital control layer for operational fleet readiness
Product family
OPTARION mission systems and software solutions are designed for the end-to-end support of military aircraft operations with the goal of ensuring seamless, timely data flows to minimise the workload of all functions involved in all phases of the mission.
When producing these systems, HENSOLDT is responsible for the entire product life-cycle, from the design, development and production via integration and support during operation right through to training and all other aspects
of in-service support for the Bundeswehr.