A Risk Reduction Process for Enhanced Mission Assurance

Advanced Core Technologies brings three advanced competencies together to support a successful research effort required to identify, foster, and deploy technologies promising reliability enhancing materials and manufacturing innovations. Self-learning search methods, sophisticated information association techniques, and stochastic forecasting enables a system capable of 5, 10, and 20 year forecasts for probability of maturation, magnitude of reliability benefit, mission assurance, and cost benefits generated for candidate materials and manufacturing innovation. The Phase I research plan includes development of an end-to-end framework that includes a set of information collection and analysis functions to support the search for materials and manufacturing advancement with promise. The architecture includes two major modules: a Reliability and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) module and Monitoring, Extrapolation and a Modeling of future Solution Scenarios (MEMSS) module. The application will provide a responsive and persistent assessment and decision support capability to enhance and guide investment decisions that foster development and suggest incorporation of candidates into acquisition and sustainment technology roadmaps.