: This article addresses an increasing trend within the Department of Defense of systems not achi... more : 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.
: This article addresses an increasing trend within the Department of Defense of systems not achi... more : 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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