Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, had spent two weeks attempting to recover the corrupted data before they notified the Pentagon and the Air Force that the incident had even occurred.
On Wednesday, the Air Force released a short statement confirming that some of the files had been recovered.
“Through extensive data recovery efforts over the weekend and this week, the Air Force has been able to regain access to the data in the Air Force Inspector General Automated Case Tracking System (ACTS),” the statement reads.
“They’ve been working nonstop since they got called in here a few days ago,” Gen. Mark Welsh said at a Defense Writers Group breakfast, Defense One reported.
“Hopefully, we’ll be able to get this data recovered and there won’t be a long-term impact, other than making sure we understand exactly what happened, how it happened and how we keep it from ever happening again.”
Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon, stated earlier in the week that they do not believe that the crash was intentional.
“[W]e’re doing our due diligence and checking out all avenues within the investigation to find out if there’s anything that we’re not aware of,” Stefanek told Defense One. “Right now, we don’t have any indication of that.”
Along with historical data and files, the database also contained everything for their current investigations.
