IAS s.r.l. is a small Italian company that has developed several innovative and technologically advanced software applications, specifically designed to meet the needs of managing aircraft fleets. These platforms address a variety of needs, including: technical-operational management of flight and ground personnel, automated management of aeronautical maintenance, integrated management of maintenance-related logistics, management of the complete structure of a training school, and management of flight safety and quality. These applications, used by clients such as Leonardo Aircraft, Helicopters, and Drones, as well as the Air Service of the National Fire Brigade, demonstrate the quality and performance IAS brings through its professional expertise.

IAS was founded in 2006 as a spin-off of its sister company, Romasistemi s.r.l., which had been involved in the development of 'aeronautical' software since 1992. Romasistemi was also active in the integration of systems in the ICT sector, with a specific focus on meeting the needs of the defense sector. It was authorized to handle classified work, offering a solid foundation for IAS.

IAS employees and collaborators primarily have engineering backgrounds, specializing in software development and aeronautical technical training. Many of them have been with the company for a long time, originating from Romasistemi s.r.l. (established in 1992). The expertise and professionalism from Romasistemi have been carried over, particularly in the fields of ICT/Data Transmission and in the design and implementation of video surveillance and security systems.

Our specific experience lies not only in interpreting a client's individual requirements through a team of Analysts/Developers, but in collaborative work involving aeronautical subject-matter experts who have worked closely with software language translators.

In the 'Defense' sector, our companies have developed numerous applications, not exclusively aeronautical, ranging from managing military and civilian personnel, administrative or hospital facilities, to access control and secured areas for organizations or military bases.

The predominantly aeronautical applications developed by our company include the following, for the listed clients:

• A.M.I.S. – Aircraft Maintenance Information System: Italian Air Force Experimental Flight Department (2001)
• H.F.P. – Helicopter Flight Program LCE (formerly AW): Flight Operations Module for Experimental Cascina Costa, CAMO/Maintenance Module for Experimental Cascina Costa (currently undergoing evolutionary adaptation).
• Training Module for AWTA Marchetti (also constantly evolving).
• A.F.M. – Air Fleet Management: Air Service of the National Fire Brigade starting from version 02 LCdv (formerly Aermacchi). A.F.M. version 03 for LCDV/LAD supporting the LSS system dedicated to the M346 PolAF fleet and a specific version for Leonardo Helicopters – Drones division.

The latest version of the AFM application (v.03) provides integrated management of several operational modules, which can be partially employed with reasonable interfacing conditions. It generally covers:

Maintenance/CAMO Area

Training Area

Logistics MRP & Risk Analysis Area (spare parts management)

Flight Safety and Quality Areas

The experience gained through the development of these projects and their adaptation to meet the varying requirements of clients has allowed our small company to implement a fleet management application. This application can manage a single aircraft or multiple ones and is also adaptable to integrate with pre-existing client systems.

We also want to point out that the tool developed by our company (whether it is AFM or the coinciding HFP), already in its current version, provides a complete operational feasibility envelope and, having been designed with the intent of being a concrete help and support to the user-operator, aiming to reduce their workload while always ensuring process accuracy, seems to us to be a sufficiently 'user-friendly' application in its completeness.

This tool, according to our perspective of possible future evolution, could be used both in the application to the operation of an autonomous aircraft fleet, as well as intended for the management of individual aircraft sold by the manufacturer, and owned by different customers, through, for example, 'web enabled' access, so that customers can access the data anywhere and at any time, without needing specific operational software.