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To Improve Defense System Reliability, National Research Council Offers Recommendations, Including Contract Proposal Changes

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Monday, March 16th, 2015

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To Improve Defense System Reliability, National Research Council Offers Recommendations, Including Contract Proposal Changes

Changes to Requests for Proposals (RFP), proposals and contracts are among the 25 recommendations from a National Research Council (NRC) in assessing how the Defense Department could increase the reliability requirements of defense systems.Every DoD system must achieve a specified reliability requirement before being approved for acquisition, but operational urgencies have led to systems fielded without demonstrating adequate reliability, according to the March report issued by the National Academies Press, Reliability Growth: Enhancing Defense System Reliability.“Between 2006 and 2011, one-half…

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