SATCOM 'EHF' Airborne Terminal Availability to Cost Analysis Demonstration.

Abstract

A practical approach (TASA/DEPEND Program) for analyzing system 'ilities' was demonstrated based on results reported in Technical Reports AFAL-TR-78-45 and AFAL-TR-78-135. This approach provides an analysis tool for studying the impact of changes in mission use on reliability, availability and dependability so that mission plans can be optimized with respect to achieving design objectives as related to cost. An important feature of this analysis approach is that the impact of malfunctions and failures on system availability and cost are separately assessed. This makes it possible to directly relate the contributions of hardware module reliability and maintainability to functional block performance. Such studies provide a means for concentrating reliability and maintainability resources in areas that will provide the maximum system improvement at the minimum cost. Also, a relational basis for trade-offs between reliability and maintainability requirements is obtained in relationship to cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA076163

Entities

People

  • Herbert M. Bartman

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Mathematical Models
  • Operations Research
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering
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