Sustainment Key Performance Parameter and the RAM-C Manual

Abstract

This article addresses an increasing trend within the Department of Defense of systems not achieving the required reliability during developmental testing and subsequently being found unsuitable during Initial Operational Test and Evaluation. It introduces a Department systems engineering initiative to help requirements managers and program managers develop balanced and measurable sustainment requirements of reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) requirements with the development of a RAM-Cost Rationale Report Manual. This manual, in a coordination draft, will assist program managers and requirements managers to infuse robust systems engineering activities early in the program so that informed RAM trades are made throughout the life cycle. Thus better reliability will be designed into systems, validated through testing, and presumably resulting in systems that are more reliable and maintainable long term.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA514034

Entities

People

  • Grant Schmieder
  • John Quackenbush
  • Peter Nolte

Organizations

  • Office Of The Under Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Surface To Air Missiles
  • Sustainment
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Economics
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Software Engineering