The Potential Use of Reliability Growth Curves in Management of Weapon Systems.

Abstract

This paper explores the potential use of Reliability Growth Curves as a means by which the progam manager can monitor and measure the reliability growth of a weapon system. The present reliability policies associated with weapon system acquisition are reviewed. Examination of three weapon system's Request for Proposals show how these policies are implemented. MIL-STD 785A, which provides the guidelines for reliability programs, is also reviewed and is followed by a discussion of the weaknesses of today's policies. This sets the stage for the presentation of the proposed method that will enable the program manager to control the reliability growth of new weapon systems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA039351

Entities

People

  • Ronald G. Anderson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Software Engineering