System Reliability Toolkit

The RIAC, in a cooperative agreement with the DTIC IAC, the Data and Analysis Center for Software (DACS), has developed the next publication in the successful Reliability "Toolkit" series long-associated with the Reliability Analysis Center. Throughout the Reliability Toolkit series, the focus has been predominantly on hardware, with little attention given to software, and no attention given to human factors. DoD systems and commercial products, however, have become increasingly software-intensive, such that software has become virtually indistinguishable from hardware in addressing mission criticality and ensuring mission success. Additionally, interaction between humans and machines requires much more attention to gain a better understanding of the impact of human factors on overall system reliability. The System Reliability Toolkit provides technical guidance to the user in all aspects of system reliability. As a result, the user can better understand and implement those techniques necessary to ensure that system and product designs exhibit successful levels of hardware, software and human reliability, and that inherent risks associated with deficiencies in system reliability can be minimized.

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