Department of Defense Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Cost Rationale Report Manual

Published: June 1, 2009, Prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Collaboration with The Joint Staff

The DoD Guide for achieving reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), published in 2005, is a useful document for project managers and engineers to plan for and design RAM into systems early in a program. This manual describes the development of the RAM and Cost Rational Report (hereafter referred to as RAM-C Report). The guide was written to help capability document requirements writers and their supporting engineering organizations think through the top-level sustainment requirements for RAM-C early in the requirements generation and refinement phases of a program to ensure the system is sustainable and affordable throughout its life cycle.

Use of the processes outlined in this document will assist in assessing RAM-C for the alternatives considered in the Analysis of Alternatives and articulating the requirements and the supporting rationale in the Capability Development Document, Capability Production Documents, and the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan.

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