Author's note This checklist is provided as an aid for persons responsible for supportability engineering to ensure that applicable areas are being addressed during system acquisition. It should be used as a series of questions, such as "have all system functions been identified using a functional block diagram?" "Have critical system functions been identified?" "Has redundancy been applied to improve mission reliability?"

1. System functions

   1. functional block diagram

   2. critical functions

   3. redundancy

2. Mission

   1. tactical scenario

   2. rate of use

   3. measurement base

   4. systems per mission

   5. mission phases

   6. mission phase code

   7. minimum capability requirement

3. Interoperability

   1. operation

   2. operation support

   3. support

   4. interface control definition

4. Measurement targets

   1. operational effectiveness

   2. operational availability

   3. cost of ownership

5. System life

6. Technology life

7. Situation and use definition

   1. environment of use

   2. number of systems to be procured

   3. number of systems to be supported

   4. locations

      1. operating locations

      2. support locations

      3. training locations

      4. storage locations

   5. deployablility/mobility requirements

      1. operation

      2. support

      3. duration

      4. transport modes

   6. support infrastructure

      1. maintenance and support philosophy

      2. supply system

         1. wholesale supply support system

         2. retail supply support system

      3. personnel trade structure

         1. number of personnel available

         2. training methods

         3. training locations

      4. support and test equipment

         1. standard tool set

         2. standard tool assignment

         3. support equipment list

         4. test equipment list

         5. calibration capabilities

      5. facilities

         1. operation facilities

         2. maintenance facilities

         3. training facilities

         4. storage facilities

         5. special facilities

      6. PHS&T capabilities

      7. technical information

         1. operation

         2. maintenance

         3. support

8. Reliability

   1. MTBF

   2. MTBCF

   3. FMECA

   4. criticality analysis

   5. reliability allocation

   6. reliability prediction

      1. preliminary

      2. final

   7. environmental stress screening

   8. growth test

      1. qualification test

9. Maintainability

   1. MTTR

   2. maintainability allocation

   3. maintainability prediction

   4. maintainability demonstration

      1. plan

      2. method

      3. report

10. Testability

    1. fault detection rate

    2. fault isolation rate

    3. fault coverage rate

    4. functional partitioning

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