U.S. Army reliability standardization improvement policy and its impact

Mr. Decker, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition, recently outlined a performance-based approach to reliability in Request for Proposals (RFP), based on two primary objectives: to outline a performance-based approach to reliability for RFPs, and to preclude the use of Mil-Hdbk-217 (Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment) in Army RFP's.