Track 1 Session 3
1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Tuesday June 9, 2009

Air Force Flight Test Center Coding and Characterization of R&M Data

Within the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense, reliability and maintainability evaluations are performed on the systems under procurement. This presentation will describe the methods used by the Air Force Flight Test Center to encode R&M data for storage into a database. These codes have been developed to address the changing environments over the last 40 years to address not only hardware failures, but to include built-in test and software as part of the evaluations as well.

Key Words: Failure, Built-in Test, Test

David C. Witteried
United States Air Force Flight Test Center
Edwards Air Force Base, California