Abstract
ABSTRACTU.S. Navy acquisition reform is presented as a means of reducing costs and risks in the acquisition process, while providing improved mission performance for Navy assets. The DD 21 acquisition program is an outgrowth of this desire, with the attainment of the U.S. Navy's performance goals by new designs being demonstrated by commercial design teams instead of being based upon traditional, detailed military specifications. One role of the U.S. Navy technical community will be to certify that the design meets the program performance goals. Because of an absence of formal performance metrics, there may be unmitigated risks that the certification process will either approve an unacceptable design or reject an acceptable design. Both types of risk would negatively impact the U.S. Navy acquisition process. This paper discusses the programmatic risk reductions inherent in adopting a technical riskâbased approach by identifying the role of reliabilityâbased acceptance criteria for ship structures.
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