JimL,
Some years ago (at the last HHMAG meeting attended), the FAA indicated that they intended to spend several millions on HUMS implementation; I for one have not yet seen the fruit of that investment. Has anyone else?
As you well know.....promises from government are not exactly something would care to bet the house on especially coming from the FAA whose concept of urgency comes closer to being a Slug Race than a Hare Chase.
Unless they put a time certain in the promise and then followed it up by hundreds of
PR fete's.....then expecting the usual delays and over runs.....don't ever look forward to seeing something from that bunch.
Their bureaucratic chain is advanced of the Italian style and they had an 800 year head start on the FAA.