en.Wedoany.com Reported - Since relocating its headquarters from Cincinnati to Miami last year, FEAM Aero is expanding its operational footprint, integrating international subsidiaries, and launching technology initiatives to improve maintenance efficiency. The company completed a leadership transition earlier this year, with Chief Operating Officer Wayne Sisson retiring in January and Chief Strategy Officer Dan Allawat returning to the COO role. Over the past few years, FEAM has accelerated its expansion, including opening new facilities, expanding its geographic footprint, and establishing partnerships in the advanced air mobility sector. Allawat told Aviation Week that he wants to return to the basics: focusing on customers, execution, and discipline.
In Miami, the company is introducing new customers as it expands its headquarters. The headquarters now includes two narrow-body hangars, offering services such as A-checks and transition checks, temporary repairs, avionics support, in-flight entertainment system modifications, and comprehensive structural repairs. Allawat stated that ACMI and charter carrier GlobalX became its line maintenance customer in December 2025, after the company decided to outsource its Miami maintenance from in-house. He also noted that Atlas Air is continuously expanding its operations in Miami, adding that the company is consolidating into one of FEAM's hangars and building an integrated office area to co-locate with airline staff.
Between 2021 and 2022, FEAM rapidly expanded its global line station network, including the acquisition of UK aircraft maintenance provider BOS Aerospace and Copenhagen-based Northern Aerotech. Allawat said FEAM is working to integrate these two companies under the FEAM EMEA brand to form a more cohesive global identity with its US operations, with the combined entities totaling approximately 40 stations.
FEAM is also advancing multiple digital transformation initiatives. Chief Information Officer Joseph Hernandez told Aviation Week that he places high value on off-the-shelf and embedded AI to minimize investment risk. For example, the company recently adopted a platform that personalizes cybersecurity training by generating phishing test emails based on the types of emails employees receive daily.
Hernandez noted that FEAM has also built an internal platform to digitize customer work orders that were previously handled through manual and analog processes. Allawat pointed out that coordinating digitalization across dozens of customers and stations presents challenges, but the company is working to standardize processes everywhere and make adjustments for individual stations as needed. Hernandez said the ultimate goal is to try to standardize core systems, centralize data collection and capture, and then push innovation to the edge where stations and end users are located. Hernandez also revealed that FEAM is expanding this platform into a broader digital operations platform. Internally, the company is actively developing capabilities to use AI to automate work package processing and optimize planning and scheduling. Additionally, a customer portal is being built to enhance communication, improve visibility into maintenance activities, and streamline customer approvals and collaboration throughout the maintenance process.
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