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 Blueprints for Product Reliability
          Product Reliability Part 1 - Defining Reliability Programs
          Product Reliability Part 2 - Developing Reliability Goals/Requirements
          Product Reliability Part 3 - Designing for Reliability
          Product Reliability Part 4 - Assessing Reliability Progress
          Product Reliability Part 5 - Measuring Product Reliability
          Product Reliability Part 6 - Ensuring Reliable Performance
   
 Reliability Guidelines
          Army Systems Engineering Policy
          DoD Guide For Achieving Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability
          Guide for Integrating Systems Engineering into DoD Acquisition Contracts
          Policy Addendum for Systems Engineering
          Reduction of Total Ownership Costs (R-TOC) Best Practices Guide
          Systems Engineering Guide: Considerations for Systems Engineering in a System of Systems Environment
   
 START Sheets
          Accelerated Testing
          Analysis of “One-Shot” Devices
          Anderson-Darling: A Goodness of Fit Test for Small Samples Assumptions
          Application of the Poisson Distribution
          Applying Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) to Build Reliable Software
          Availability
          Censored Data
          Combining Data
          Commercial Off-the-Shelf Equipment and Non-Developmental Items
          Cost As An Independent Variable (CAIV)
          Creating Robust Designs
          Derating
          Design for Maintainability (DFM)
          Developing Reliability Requirements
          Electronic Reliability Prediction
          Empirical Assessment of Normal and Lognormal Distribution Assumptions
          Empirical Assessment of Weibull Distribution
          Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
          Flexible Sustainment
          Impacts on Reliability of Recent Changes in DoD Acquisition Reform Policies
          Kolmogorov-Simirnov: A Goodness of Fit Test for Small Samples
          MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)
          Operating Characteristic (OC) Functions and Acceptance Sampling Plans
          Parts Management Plan
          Performance-Based Requirements (PBRs)
          Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits (PEM's)
          Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
          Reliability Design for Affordability
          Reliability Estimations for the Exponential Life
          Reliability Growth
          Simulation-Based Acquisition (SBA)
          Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution
          Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution
          Statistical Confidence
          Sustained Maintenance Planning
          The Applicability of Markov Analysis Methods to Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety
          The R&M Case - A Reasoned, Auditable Argument Supporting the Contention that a System Satisfies its R&M Requirements
          Understanding Binomial Sequential Testing
          Understanding Series and Parallel Systems Reliability
          Use of Bayesian Techniques for Reliability
   
 The Journals of The Reliability Information Analysis Center
      
 1998
         
 1st Quarter
                Some Observations on Demonstrating Availability
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 2nd Quarter
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 3rd Quarter
                Reliability Growth
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 1999
         
 1st Quarter
                Feasibility Of A Common Quality Certification System
                More Significant Papers in Reliability Physics
                SIDAC Insert
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 2nd Quarter
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 3rd Quarter
                A Tutorial: 217Plus™
                Reliability Prediction Methods - An Overview
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 4th Quarter
                Engineering Information Assurance into Information Systems
                FAQ's About IEC Dependability Standards
                Standardization in Reliability
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 2000
         
 1st Quarter
                A Discussion of Software Reliability Modeling Problems
                Tutorial: Testing for MTBF
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 2nd Quarter
                217Plus™ in Ten Easy Steps
                Reliability-Centered Maintenance: A Success Story for the Engine Repair Process
                Supportability and the RAC
                The Problem with Aviation COTS
                Tutorial: The Central Limit Theorem
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 3rd Quarter
                ISO 9000 Takes a New Approach
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 4th Quarter
                Achieving High Reliability
                Demonstrating ORD Capabilities: A New Approach
                Human Interface Technology
                Tutorial: Test Risks, Confidence and OC Curves
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 2001
         
 1st Quarter
                New Guidance for Using Performance-Based Standards
                Non-Government Standards Adopted
                Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data, Part 1: Random Variables, Distributions, Parameters, and Data
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 2nd Quarter
                Non-Normal Distributions in the Real World
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 3rd Quarter
                Calculating Probability of Failure of Electronic and Electrical System (Markov vs. FTA)
                Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data, Part 2: On Estimation and Testing
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 4th Quarter
                Real-Time Prognostic Condition-Based Maint. for High Value Systems
                Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data, Part 3: On Statistical Modeling of Reliability Data
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 2002
         
 1st Quarter
                A Method for Achieving an Enhanced Mission Capability
                TRW Automotive Assesses PRISM Methodology for Internal Use
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 2nd Quarter
                Statistics - A Reliability Engineer's Tool, Not Reliability Engineering
                The Facts About Predicting Software Defects and Reliability
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 3rd Quarter
                Additional Sources for Supply Chain Management
                Competing through Supply Chains: The Rise of Integrated Supply Chain Management
                ISO 9000: Examples of Converting and Tailoring International and National Quality Standards to Industry-Specific Standards
                Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
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 4th Quarter
       2003
         
 1st Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                Is Probabilistic Risk Assessment the Answer?
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 2nd Quarter
                Five Key Ways to Improve Reliability
                Methods for Reducing the Cost to Maintain a Fleet of Repairable System
                Reliability Testing of Printed Wiring Boards with Interconnect Stress Testing Technology (IST)
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 3rd Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                A Beginners Guide to HALT
                Markov Analysis
                Military Systems Sustainability: A Lean Model
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 4th Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                Applying RCM Analysis to EA-6B Corrosion Failure Modes
                Biomedical Survival Analysis vs. Reliability: Comparison, Crossover, and Advances
                Mechanical Stress/Strength Interference Theory
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 2004
         
 1st Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                Multivariable Testing (MVT)
                Petri Nets: An Alternative to Markov Chains
                Raytheon Assessment of PRISM As A Field Failure Prediction Tool
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 2nd Quarter
                A Strategy for Simultaneous Evaluation of Multiple Objectives
                Not All Lessons Learned Systems Are Created Equal
                Product Assurance Capability (PAC) Quantified
                The Reliability Implications of Emerging Human Interface Technologies
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 3rd Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                An Introduction to Task Analysis
                Hazardous Events
                New DoD Supportability Guidebook
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 4th Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                Improving Mission Performance & Reducing Total Ownership Cost
                Random Vibration & Mechanical Shock Excite All Resonances
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 2005
         
 1st Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                Form, Fit, Function, and Interface - An Element of an Open System Strategy
                Reliability Analysis of Avionics in the Commercial Aerospace Industry
                Reliability Theory Explains Human Aging and Longevity
                System Level Clues for Detailed Part Issues
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 2nd Quarter
                217Plus™ Column
                New DoD RAM Guide
                Practical Considerations in Calculating Reliability of Fielded Product
                Risk Management and Reliability
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 3rd Quarter
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 2006
         
 1st Quarter
                Demo of Embedded Health Management Technology for HEMTT LHS
                Finding Bearing Failure Through Filter Debris Analysis
                Information Management for Systems Design for Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability and Interoperability
                Probabilistic Airframe Structural Integrity Management
                PROTOCOL to Provide AMRDEC a New Reliability Enviroment
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 2nd Quarter
                Evaluate Soldering Irons for Pb-Free Assembly -A Quantitative Approach
                Reliability of Leadless Interconnects in GaAs ASICs
                Tin Whisker Risk Assesment for Electronic Products
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                Working To Get the Lead Out
         
 3rd Quarter
                A Process For Developing Highly Reliable and Safe Devices
                The RIAC "Handbook of 217Plus Reliability Prediction Models."
                The Story Behind the Red Phosphorus Mold Coompound Device Failures
                Transition to Pb-free Allows in Capacitor Filter Assemblies
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 4th Quarter
                An Overview of 217Plus System Reliability Assessment Methodolog
                Electronic Component Failure Rate Prediction Analysis
                Reducing Reliability Risks for Reconfigurable Computing
                Semiconductor Device Qualification with Multiple Failure Mechanisms
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 2007
       2008
         
 1st Quarter
                Predicting Reliability of MMICs Using Monte Carlo Analytical Techniques (Part 1)
                RCM and Risk Management (Part 3)
                System Reliability and Condition-Based Maintenance
                The RIAC 217PlusTM Switch and Relay Failure Rate Models
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 2nd Quarter
                Predicting Reliability of MMICS Using Monte Carlo Analytical Techniques (Part 2 of 3)
                The Key To Weapons That Work
                The RIAC 217plus™ Connector and Resistor Failure Rate Models
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 3rd Quarter
                Highlighting the New RIAC Website
                Predicting Reliability of MMICs Using Monte Carlo Analytical Techniques (Part 3 of 3)
                Spares Optimization Algorithm for Calculating Recommended Spares
                The RIAC 217PlusTM Transistor and Thyristor Failure Rate Models
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 4th Quarter
                Air Force C-130 Rainbow Fitting Diagnostic Technology Development
                Customer-Facing Reliability Growth Modeling to Improve Customer Satisfac tion (Par t 1 of 2)
                The RIAC 217Plus™ Sof tware Failure Rate Model
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 2009
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