Criteria for Evaluating Weapon System Reliability, Availability and Costs.

Abstract

The purpose of this task was to determine the relationships among system and subsystem reliability, availability and life cycle costs. To accomplish this a model was constructed to determine the optimum reliability for each of the subsystems that comprise a system such that the total life cycle cost of the system, as affected by reliability, is minimized. Three principal submodels were constructed. These are: cost of system downtime (costs to achieve constant mission requirements) resulting from imperfect reliability; design, development, test, acquisition, and program management costs associated with achieving reliability; and maintenance and support costs affected by subsystem reliability. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0777456

Entities

Organizations

  • LMI

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Availability
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Downtime
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Maintenance
  • Program Management
  • Reliability
  • Resource Management
  • Systems Management
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Software Engineering