DoD Releases Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Cost Rationale Report Manual

I received notification of the new manual including Cost Rationale along with reliability, availability, and maintainability.  This revision adds cost to the previous reliability, availability, maintainability document.  Here is the email announcement:

The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff collaborated on the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability-Cost (RAM-C) Report Manual to assist combat developers, project managers, and engineers to design RAM into systems early in a program. The manual supports life cycle implementation of the Sustainment metric, for which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) issued new guidance in May 2007. The Sustainment metric consists of an Availability Key Performance Parameter (KPP) and two supporting Key Systems Attributes (KSAs): Reliability and Ownership Cost. The CJCS guidance requires programs under development to create a balance between RAM performance in the field and the related costs of providing that performance-a distinct paradigm shift within the acquisition community that, once fully implemented, should result in improved value for major acquisition programs.

http://www.acq.osd.mil/sse/

http://www.acq.osd.mil/sse/docs/DoD-RAM-C-Manual.pdf

Additionally  the manual discusses ownership cost as summarized below:

“Ownership Cost KSA. Ownership Cost provides balance to the sustainment solution by ensuring that the Operations and Support (O&S) costs associated with availability (e.g., maintenance, spares, fuel, support.) are considered in making program decisions. For consistency and to capitalize on existing efforts in this area, the Cost Analysis Improvement Group O&S Cost Estimating Structure will be used in support of this KSA. (See the structure at the following website: http://dcarc.pae.osd.mil/reference/osd_ces/ ndex.aspx). Appropriate sections of this document cover the specific elements involved in cost estimation.”

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