scope:

GENERAL

ARMP-1 (NATO Requirements for Reliability and Maintainability) is the baseline document for the achievement of the required levels of availability and mission success during the in-service life of military materiel. It emphasizes the need for properly conducted Reliability and Maintainability (R & M) work during the design and development stage.

The timely provision of military materiel with acceptable levels of R & M is essential to the achievement of the required operational effectiveness, coupled with acceptable life cycle costs. R & M requirements must be realistic and an agreed management strategy followed. This should include a continuous and evolutionary approach, with R & M as an integral part of any project, from inception to final acceptance into service. Special attention must be paid as to how R & M characteristics affect logistic expenditure - maintenance equipment installations, manpower and spares provisioning.

In order to raise the standards of R & M throughout NATO it is essential that the subject is properly understood and applied to all levels and during all phases of the procurement process. To this end, the need for adequate training is self-evident and this ARMP is intended to give guidance on this aspect. SCOPE AND APPLICABILITY OF NATO R & M TRAINING

In the most simple terms, people who require training in the theory and practice of R & M are:

a. those who are full-time and specialized R & M practitioners, advisors or consultants.

b. those whose work involves them in decisions or management processes concerned with R & M or brings them into contact with specialized R & M practitioners.