Building a Reliable Product: Army Reliability Improvement Initiatives

Abstract

The Army is rapidly pursuing new reliability improvement initiatives that support and implement recent Defense Science Board and Department of Defense Reliability Improvement Working Group recommendations. Those initiatives are crucial and are needed now. Army and DoD system reliability values are on a downward turn. Even moderate degradations in system reliability, on the order of 10 percent, equate to billions of dollars in additional costs over the life cycle of a major weapon system. Even more important, warfighters deserve the most reliable and rugged equipment possible. The new Army initiatives will provide an opportunity to improve system reliability, stop the downward spiral, and cost-effectively implement reliability best practices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1016160

Entities

People

  • David E. Mortin
  • Michael J. Cushing

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Complex Systems
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Military Acquisition
  • Reliability
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Software Engineering