Session: 4C, Monday, 25 January 2010, 1445-1645 Moderator: Michael J. Cushing, PhD, US Army Evaluation Center
This session describes actions being taken within the Department of Defense to implement new RAM initiatives directed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. Information is presented on the use of reliability engineering design practices; the concept, definition, and rationale for Materiel Availability (Am); and guidelines for Army T&E community use to insure RAM engineering and RAM T&E requirements remain at the forefront of T&E planning and management.
Papers: 4C1 [0268] IMPLEMENTING NEW RAM INITIATIVES IN ARMY TEST AND EVALUATIONby Ken Dalton, Kristina Diaz, and J. Brian Hall, Ph.D., U.S. Army Evaluation Center Describes implementation guide prepared by the U.S. Army Evaluation Center for the Army’s RAM acquisition workforce. Cornerstone provisions of the new implementation guide are the new GEIA-STD-00095 for developing contract language covering reliability best practices, the Army Materiel System Analysis Activity’s (AMSAA) Reliability Program Scorecard for evaluation of vendors’ reliability design principles and management strategies, and the use of reliability growth concepts.
4C2 [0271] DISCUSSION OF NEW DOD INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINMENT ISSUESby Grant Schmeider, Office of the Secretary of Defense Recent DoD acquisition policy changes intended to ensure program affordability and suitability have been met with varying degrees of acceptance throughout the services. In May 2007 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) issued new guidance implementing a mandatory Sustainment Metric consisting of an Availability Key Performance Parameter (KPP) and two supporting Key Systems Attributes (KSAs): Reliability and Ownership Cost.
4C3 [0272] ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS (PHYSICS OF FAILURE) by
Gary Drake, US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity The US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) conducts PoF analyses to support contractors, program managers (PMs) and engineers on systems in all stages of acquisition from design, to test and evaluation (T&E) and fielded systems. In the design stage system level dynamics models, component finite element models and fatigue-life models are used to reveal the underlying physics of the hardware in its mission environment.
4C4 [0273] IMPROVED RELIABILITY TESTING WITH MULTIAXIAL ELECTRODYNAMICS VIBRATION byEd Habtour, U.S. Army Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) This paper discusses the development of Physics of Failure (POF) techniques that permit developers to better capture design defects in electronic items subjected to multiaxial eletrodynamice vibration thereby enhancing the design for reliability process.
DoD Invited Papers Session on Implementation of New RAM Initiatives Within the Department of Defense
Session: 4C, Monday, 25 January 2010, 1445-1645
Moderator: Michael J. Cushing, PhD, US Army Evaluation Center
This session describes actions being taken within the Department of Defense to implement new RAM initiatives directed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. Information is presented on the use of reliability engineering design practices; the concept, definition, and rationale for Materiel Availability (Am); and guidelines for Army T&E community use to insure RAM engineering and RAM T&E requirements remain at the forefront of T&E planning and management.
Papers:
4C1 [0268] IMPLEMENTING NEW RAM INITIATIVES IN ARMY TEST AND EVALUATION by
Ken Dalton, Kristina Diaz, and J. Brian Hall, Ph.D., U.S. Army Evaluation Center
Describes implementation guide prepared by the U.S. Army Evaluation Center for the Army’s RAM acquisition workforce. Cornerstone provisions of the new implementation guide are the new GEIA-STD-00095 for developing contract language covering reliability best practices, the Army Materiel System Analysis Activity’s (AMSAA) Reliability Program Scorecard for evaluation of vendors’ reliability design principles and management strategies, and the use of reliability growth concepts.
4C2 [0271] DISCUSSION OF NEW DOD INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINMENT ISSUES by Grant Schmeider, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Recent DoD acquisition policy changes intended to ensure program affordability and suitability have been met with varying degrees of acceptance throughout the services. In May 2007 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) issued new guidance implementing a mandatory Sustainment Metric consisting of an Availability Key Performance Parameter (KPP) and two supporting Key Systems Attributes (KSAs): Reliability and Ownership Cost.
4C3 [0272] ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS (PHYSICS OF FAILURE) by
Gary Drake, US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
The US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) conducts PoF analyses to support contractors, program managers (PMs) and engineers on systems in all stages of acquisition from design, to test and evaluation (T&E) and fielded systems. In the design stage system level dynamics models, component finite element models and fatigue-life models are used to reveal the underlying physics of the hardware in its mission environment.
4C4 [0273] IMPROVED RELIABILITY TESTING WITH MULTIAXIAL ELECTRODYNAMICS VIBRATION by Ed Habtour, U.S. Army Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA)
This paper discusses the development of Physics of Failure (POF) techniques that permit developers to better capture design defects in electronic items subjected to multiaxial eletrodynamice vibration thereby enhancing the design for reliability process.