3.7 Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A) Support

Camber Prime Contract: N61339-01-C-0016 (Zone 4). Camber is providing the AMRDEC Maintenance Engineering Division on-site engineering capability necessary for depot-level maintenance production support for Navy and Army helicopter components, power plants, aircraft systems and mission systems. Emphasis is placed on depot repair and rework procedures and processes. They generate Maintenance Engineering Changes, Maintenance Engineering Orders and Engineering Investigations to provide specific repair guidelines for items such as rotor blades, servos, engines, transmissions and fuselage structural beams. Value Engineering goals and metrics are developed and reverse engineering techniques are employed. They further analyze equipment requirements and accuracy and suitability of procedures to achieve essential depot level functions at the lowest possible cost, using value methodology. They team support Lean Manufacturing implementation and develop draft Depot Maintenance Work Requirements to define standard procedures for depot level maintenance and provide research and analysis to verify Technical Manual depot maintenance requirements.

SYMVIONICS Prime Contract: F04700-02-F-A210 (Zone 6). SYMVIONICS maintains a continuous reliability interface on this and other programs, with a design engineering schema that identifies maintainability provisions and design/production requirements that, when satisfied, enhance system availability. The ILS Management Program provides logistics/design engineers with: 1) Reliability allocations and predictions (MIL-HDBK-217F used for guidance); 2) Effects of storage, shelf life, packaging, handling, and transportation; and 3) Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) data or its commercial equivalent acquired from equipment vendors. As with reliability, their Maintainability Program is integrated with the design engineering and logistics engineering efforts. The principal emphasis of the SYMVIONICS maintainability program is placed on selecting highly reliable equipment with established, proven support systems that include: 1) Standard, commercially available parts and subassemblies; 2) Certified/approved vendor repair capabilities; 3) Built-in test and diagnostics capabilities, including remote access; 4) Standard, commercially available test equipment and tools; and 5) Commercially validated off-the-shelf technical manuals.