Rel360™: Continuous Reliability Assessment for Enhanced Mission Assurance

Mission assurance across MDA weapon systems requires ongoing assessment of material and component reliability issues as well as manufacturing and material process advances. To this end, the proposed effort is concerned with developing a prototype framework that supports: reliability and vulnerability assessments; monitoring, extrapolation/roadmapping of future scenarios; and modeling and opportunistic inclusion of specific emerging technologies that address specific reliability issues in the evolving technology roadmap. Central to these capabilities are context-driven search, self-learning, and multiattribute decision framework for evaluating pros and cons of alternative technologies associated with manufacturing and materials processes. Phase I of this effort will produce a system concept and breadboard prototype that showcases the key Phase I innovations.