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PURPOSE. To establish policy, responsibilities and procedures for planning, establishment, and implementation of the Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Program processes for Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) programs and projects to:

a. Ensure that appropriate value-added R&M engineering activities and processes are implemented throughout the program and project life cycle that positively influence the system design development;

b. Ensure that R&M engineering activities, processes and data are fully integrated with the program and project systems engineering process including supportability and other related processes; and,

c. Ensure timely and continuous assessment of the progress toward achieving R&M requirements, including identification of areas for improvement.

APPLICABILITY. This Directive applies to MSFC program and project offices having responsibility for the design of manned and unmanned space flight projects and payloads. To the extent practical, this directive shall be applicable to the existing programs and projects. This Marshall Policy Directive (MPD) does not apply to facility projects.