WORKSHOP ON RELIABILITY GROWTH
Panel on the Theory and Application of
Reliability Growth Modeling to Defense Systems
Committee on National Statistics
National Academy of Sciences
September 22-23, 2011
Holiday Inn Washington Central
Mayor’s Room
1501 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
AGENDA
Thursday, September 22
| 8:45 am |
Key Issues in Reliability Growth Frank Kendall, Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics, DoD; and Michael Gilmore, Office of the Director, Operational Testing and Evaluation, DoD |
| 9:30 am |
Implementation Strategy upon Approval of DoD Reliability Policy DTM 11-003 Andy Monje, Mission Assurance, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, DoD |
| 10:00 am |
Review of Reliability Management, Design and Growth Standards Available to DoD and Industry—Reliability Information Analysis Center David Nicholls, Reliability Information Analysis Center |
| 10:25 am |
Further Views on GEIA-STD 0009 Paul Shedlock, Raytheon |
| 10:50 am | Break |
| 11:00 am |
A View from Defense Contractors Tom Wissink, Lockheed Martin, and Lou Gullo, Raytheon |
| 12:10 pm | Lunch |
| 1:10 pm |
View from Nondefense Contractors Guangbin Yang, Ford; Shirish Kher, Alcatel-Lucent; and Martha Gardner, General Electric |
| 2:20 pm |
ATEC [U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command] Reliability Growth Case Studies and Lessons Learned Mike Cushing, Army Evaluation Center |
| 3:15 pm |
Defense Experiences Albert (Bud) Boulter, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center; James Woodford, Chief Systems Engineer, Research, Development, and Acquisitions, U.S. Navy; and Karen Bain, U.S. Navy Air Systems Command |
| 4:30 pm | Break |
| 4:45 pm |
Some Software Complications in Reliability Assessment William McCarthy, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, U.S. Navy, and Patrick Sul, Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, DoD |
| 5:15 pm |
Software Testing Nachi Nagappan, Microsoft |
| 5:40 pm | Floor Discussion |
| 6:00 pm | Adjourn |
| Friday, September 23 | |
| 8:45 am |
Testing to Assess Reliability and Other Design Issues for Hardware Systems E.A. Elsayed, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University |
| 9:25 am |
The DT/OT Gap Paul Ellner, Army Test and Evaluation Command |
| 10:00 am | Break |
| 10:10 am |
Reconsidering the Foundations of Reliability Theory Nozer Singpurwalla, Department of Statistics, George Washington University |
| 10:40 am |
Reliability Growth and Beyond Don Gaver, Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School |
| 11:10 am |
A New Look at Fix Effectiveness Factors Steve Brown, Commercial Engineering, Lennox International |
| 11:40 am |
Various Technical Issues: Open Discussion Moderator: Ananda Sen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan |
| 12:00 pm | Working Lunch (with continuing discussion) |
| 1:00 pm | Adjourn |
