scope:

This Handbook provides procuring activities and development contractors with an understanding of the concepts, principles, and methodologies covering all aspects of electronic systems reliability engineering and cost analysis as they relate to the design, acquisition, and deployment of DoD equipment/systems.

This Handbook is intended for use by both contractor and government personnel during the conceptual, validation, full scale development, production phases of an equipment/system life cycle.

The Handbook is organized as follows:

SECTION 2 Referenced Documents SECTION 3 Definitions SECTION 4 General Statements SECTION 5 Reliability/Maintainability/Availability Theory SECTION 6 Reliability Specification, Allocation and Prediction SECTION 7 Reliability Engineering Design Guidelines SECTION 8 Reliability Data Collection and Analysis, Demonstration and Growth SECTION 9 Software Reliability SECTION 10 Systems Reliability Engineering SECTION 11 Production and Use (Deployment) R&M SECTION 12 R&M Management Considerations

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