Purpose
The intent of this document is to summarize lessons learned and best practices as a result of reviewing 18-plus programs. These lessons learned are intended to assist Program Managers and their Engineering staffs with best practices that have proven successful over the years to ensure that reliability is designed into programs early in the acquisition cycle. All aspects of Reliability design were not addressed by these case studies, and it is not intended to circumvent or replace good systems engineering processes. Rather, the best practices and lessons learned contained herein are a compilation of reliability design activities that are most often overlooked, skipped, or short-changed in the interest of reducing cost or schedule. Adherence to these activities combined with solid system engineering processes has proven to be invaluable in helping programs through the major Milestones (MS A, B, and C) of the DoD Acquisition System.
DAU offers a number of training opportunities on the subjects covered in this brochure, including (but not limited to):
