Title :
Weapon system reliability and maintainability: increasing their visibility with decision makers
Author :
Price, Richard W.
Author_Institution :
US Army Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee, VA, USA
Abstract :
The enhancement of the visibility of system R&M (reliability and maintainability) characteristics with senior executives at the top of the decision-making process is examined. It is shown that possible conflict with other documents used by decision makers poses a drawback. Cost and operational effectiveness analyses (COEAs) are one example, since they are the official, validated cost reference for US Army weapon systems. Further investigation is needed to refine approaches for communicating R&M information
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; reliability; weapons; US Army weapon systems; cost and operational effectiveness analysis; decision makers; maintainability; reliability; Arm; Costs; Engineering management; Hardware; Investments; Maintenance engineering; Reliability engineering; System testing; Terminology; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1991. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-661-6
DOI :
10.1109/ARMS.1991.154418
