ONEIL is demonstrating its ONeSOURCE S1000D Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETP) Viewer next week at the Association of the United States Army’s 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition.
This year’s AUSA theme, “America’s Army: The Foundation of the Joint Force,” centers on Army transformation and readiness across a complex, multi-domain battlefield. For the Ohio-based, employee-owned company, that conversation comes down to a practical question: can the technician in front of a broken system find the right procedure, fast?
A joint force depends on the technical information behind it. Maintainers across every service and platform need accurate, accessible data to keep equipment mission-ready, whether they are working on a ground vehicle at a forward operating base or an aircraft on a flight line far from the nearest depot.
The ONeSOURCE viewer is a centralized, standards-based platform built to give those technicians one way to navigate technical manuals regardless of service, platform or environment.
The viewer offers search across procedures, parts data, and schematics, along with connectors that plug into the maintenance and logistics systems programs already use. It works online or offline for disconnected field environments, uses role-based access controls that adhere to S1000D standards, and lets programs push emergency updates and operational supplements to teams in the field.
Integration and search speed have been the company’s focus over the past year, according to Mike Ellis, senior program manager at ONEIL.
“We’ve kept building out our integration connectors so the viewer fits into the systems maintainers are already using instead of asking them to learn something new,” Ellis said. “On the search side, we’ve kept working on cutting down the time between ‘I have a problem’ and ‘here’s the procedure.’ That’s time saved on every job, and it adds up fast across a whole fleet.”
Ellis tied the work directly to this year’s joint force theme. S1000D, the international specification for technical publications, structures data the same way no matter which service or program created it.
“Interoperability is really the point of S1000D as a standard,” he said. “The ONeSOURCE viewer takes that further by giving every maintainer, on every platform, the same way of getting to that data. Whether you’re working on an Army ground system or supporting a joint logistics mission, you shouldn’t have to relearn a new tool each time. That’s a big part of what actually makes a joint force work together, not just in a slide deck.”
The viewer has already been fielded on US Air Force programs. On the KC-46 tanker, ONEIL’s solution cleared vendor gridlock and allowed the Air Force to take direct ownership of its technical manuals for organic sustainment. For the MQ-9 fleet, a streamlined software solution reduced staff hours and operational costs while improving data accuracy and accessibility.
For programs rethinking their technical documentation strategy, Ellis said the priorities have not changed, but the stakes have.
“Figure out what’s actually slowing your technicians down. Put real money into training so people know how to use the system you’re giving them. And stop treating this as ‘manuals’ and start treating it as one source of truth for the program,” he said. “Get that right and you’re supporting mission readiness, not just publishing paperwork.”
ONEIL is running live demonstrations of the ONeSOURCE S1000D IETP Viewer at Booth 505 through October 14.