Making Improved Reliability a Reality

Abstract

The September 2008 issue of "Information Systems Test & Evaluation" focused on improving suitability. It coincided with, and in some cases led, reliability improvement policy and guidance. By early September 2008, all the military departments responded positively to the direction of Under Secretary Young in July 2008 to "establish a reliability improvement acquisition policy to address the problem of inadequate system RAM [reliability-availability-maintainability]." For example, on September 4, 2008, Dr. Donald Winter, Secretary of the Navy, stated, "Having performance is important, but not as important in most cases, as having reliability." I offer several specific examples of progress made toward improving suitability and reliability and a guide on where to find the products.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA514459

Entities

People

  • Ernest Seglie

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Military Acquisition
  • Reliability
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

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