Background
The United States Air Force's work with Enduvo began through small-business research contracts: the Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX funded a Phase I in 2018 and a $1.2 million Phase II in 2019 to build an augmented and virtual reality platform for training technical, maintenance, medical and engineering personnel. In October 2023 the service scaled that work into a $10 million enterprise-wide Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the company's immersive learning platform, which the company said was at the time the only immersive virtual classroom holding USAF Authority to Operate and integrating with Air Force learning management systems.
The deployment
Under the IDIQ, interactive 3D courseware has been delivered across Air Force training commands and depot maintenance organizations. The subjects covered include:
- aircraft maintenance
- pilot training
- egress
- fuels
- aerospace ground equipment
- other technical specialties
Screenshots published by the company show the form the lessons take. A virtual hangar holds a full-size T-6 Texan II trainer with its fuel system exposed as a cutaway and the affected lines highlighted in red. Workbenches around the aircraft carry individual components the learner can inspect, and floating panels present reference photography, schematics and recorded instructor video alongside the 3D model.
How the lessons are built
The platform is an AI-native authoring tool rather than a bespoke simulation. AI generates a first draft of a lesson from existing source material; the subject matter experts who do the work then shape and approve it, without software developers or instructional design teams in the loop. Because authoring sits with the experts, a course can be revised and redeployed across the organization when a technical order changes, instead of re-entering a development cycle — which keeps instruction current and standardized across locations. The company describes the model as human-plus-AI authoring, with an expert shaping and signing off every draft.
Enduvo states that lessons are deployable across extended reality devices and can also be delivered outside a headset, on desktop and mobile. When the Air Force Research Laboratory funded the earlier phase of the work, an Air Force technical training NCO described the mixed-reality classroom as giving every student the same personal and consistent interactive presentation of the material.
Results
In a USAF effectiveness study cited by the company, maintainers training on the platform raised average test scores from 25.6% to 98.6%. Air Force subject matter experts can also keep courseware current as aircraft and procedures change, rather than commissioning new development each time a technical order is revised.
Contract status
On 3 August 2026 the company announced that the Air Force had extended the IDIQ by two years, through 28 September 2028, continuing the maintenance and technical training work across Air Education and Training Command and Air Force depot organizations. The original contract had been awarded in 2023.
