Mission-Ready Innovation
Wilco is a U.S.-based SaaS company modernizing aviation and defense maintenance, delivering greater visibility and control in mission-critical operations. Recognized by Aviation Week as a Top 10 Cool New MRO Product, we bring proven commercial innovation to defense sustainment.
2.6
Technicians per aircraft achieved at AirTran, compared to the 10.2 industry average.
$68M
Annual maintenance labor savings delivered through technology and automation.
We build advanced Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) software
Better maintenance decisions
Reduces aircraft downtime
Increases asset readiness
Saves thousands of labor hours
From Siloed Systems to Smarter Maintenance Decisions
Defense maintenance operations rely on fragmented legacy IT systems, leaving command decisions driven more by experience than comprehensive data analysis.
Maintenance data is:
Stored in stovepiped systems
Manually consolidated
Difficult to analyze at scale
Dependent on tribal knowledge
The result:
Unexpected equipment failures
Inefficient resource allocation
Parts imbalances
Hidden performance insights
Increased operational costs
This isn’t a data collection problem — defense organizations already generate vast amounts of maintenance data. The challenge is that information remains disconnected and operationally unusable, leaving little time to identify patterns, risks, or optimization opportunities.

Raw information alone does not improve decisions. Data creates mission value only when it is validated, structured, governed, and transformed into intelligence products that enable AI-driven analysis, reveal hidden trends, and guide precise resource allocation beyond human cognitive limits.
Unified, Mission‑Ready Maintenance Platform
Wilco delivers a cloud-native, defense-advanced MRO platform designed to unify fragmented systems and enable real-time, data-driven decision-making.
Designed as a best-of-breed system, Wilco integrates with technical publications, inventory systems, parts management tools, and other external defense platforms.
Key Capabilities:
Real-time asset status and configuration visibility
QA and compliance analytics
Data trending and predictive insights
Secure API-based interoperability
Support for disconnected operations with local caching
219,863
projected annual manhours saved across ANG enterprise
$9.45M
projected annual cost avoidance
20%
reduction in QA processing time (validated at 142nd Fighter Wing)
Wing
strong user adoption with Wing leadership requesting accelerated rollout
Our mission
For far too long, people who work in the field, in a hangar, or on the line have been asked to make do with what they have. Improvise improvements. "Just get it done." We exist to solve headaches for those workers.

We want to bring the speed, connectivity, and convenience of modern software to maintenance and engineering teams by sharing the tools that people take for granted in the office out to the connected workers in the field.
It's becoming harder and harder to find skilled people to maintain the things we rely on, while the work they do becomes more and more critical. 

Our tools give teams the resources they need to collaborate, execute, and monitor work in real-time. Through better tools, we believe that we can help teams outperform their industry peers, leading to happier workers, more effective teams, and improved profitability for companies.
Shane Ballman
CEO
24 years building technology for aircraft maintenance teams. Led initiatives generating $68M annual labor savings at AirTran Airways. B.S., Aviation Business Administration, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Shane Ballman Wilco
24 years
building technology