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Purpose. This standard establishes uniform requirements and criteria for a Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to implement the FRACAS requirement of MIL-STD-785. FRACAS is intended to provide management visibility and control for reliability and maintainability improvement of hardware and associated software by timely and disciplined utilization of failure and maintenance data to generate and implement effective corrective actions to prevent failure recurrence and to simplify or reduce the maintenance tasks.

Application. This standard applies to acquisitions for the design, development, fabrication, test, and operation of military systems, equipment, and associated computer programs. This standard primarily applies to the program phases of demonstration and validation and full scale development.

Relationship to other requirements. This standard, in addition to implementing the FRACAS requirements of MIL-STD-785, is intended to complement the requirements of MIL-STD-470, MIL-STD-781, MIL-STD-1679, and MIL-STD-2068.

Integration with other activities. The FRACAS effort shall be coordinated and integrated with other program efforts such as reliability, quality assurance, maintainability, human engineering, system safety, test, parts, materials, and processes control, configuration management, and integrated logistics support to preclude duplication of effort and to produce integrated cost effective results.