Published 14 June 2011

This handbook provides procuring activities and development contractors with an understanding of the concepts and principles of reliability growth, advantages of managing reliability growth, and guidelines and procedures to be used in managing reliability growth. It should be noted that this handbook is not intended to serve as a reliability growth plan to be applied to a program without any tailoring. This handbook, when used in conjunction with knowledge of the system and its development program, will allow the development of a reliability growth management plan that will aid in developing a final system that meets its reliability requirements and lowers the life cycle cost of the fielded systems.

Because of the brevity of the handbook, detailed development of underlying theory and estimation procedures are not provided. More extensive details may be found in the literature cited. This handbook is not intended to serve as a reliability growth plan to be applied to a program without any tailoring. This handbook, when used in conjunction with knowledge of the system and its development program, will allow the development of a reliability growth management plan that will aid in developing a final system that meets its reliability requirements and lowers the life cycle cost of the fielded systems.

This handbook superseded MIL-HDBK-00189A of 10 September 2009.

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