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

NAVSEA SOW:

This functional area consists of applying engineering, scientific, and analytical disciplines to ensure that systems and platforms RM&A requirements are integrated with the system design, development and life cycle sustainment resulting in warfighting capabilities that function effectively when required and that detection and correction of design deficiencies, weak parts, and workmanship defects that affect functionality are implemented.

What:

ITE will provide physics based modeling services and software tools, applying engineering, scientific, and analytical disciplines to ensure that systems and platforms RM&A requirements are integrated with the system design, development and life cycle sustainment .

How:

• ITE will draw on its experience in supporting NAVSEA, Carderock ( Philadelphia ) and ONR in creating advanced modeling techniques for the design, verification and validation of designs based on current work on-going with ONR and its Ship Smart System Design (S3D) program.
  
• ITE will use physics modeling and engineering analysis services to complement the engineering efforts of NSWC and their support contractors. This obviates the requirement that NSWC purchase and maintain software, though they may. The work can be provided quickly on site but, even more effectively be performed by ITE off-site as was done on the LPD17 Program where nine major vital systems were modeled and analyzed using ITE services.
  
• Additional services can include structuring the physics models to support IV&V, dock & sea trials as well as live fire testing.