Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Defense and Commercial System Development: A Comparison; 5 3 Reliability Metrics; 6 4 Reliability Growth Models; 7 5 System Design for Reliability; 8 6 Reliability Growth Through Testing; 9 7 Developmental Test and Evaluation; 10 8 Operational Test and Evaluation; 11 9 Software Reliability Growth; 12 10 Conclusions and Recommendations; 13 References; 14 Appendix A: Recommendations of Previous Relevant Reports of the Committee on National Statistics; 15 Appendix B: Workshop Agenda; 16 Appendix C: Recent DoD Efforts to Enhance System Reliability in Development; 17 Appendix D: Critique of MIL-HDBK-217--Anto Peter, Diganta Das, and Michael Pecht; 18 Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff; 19 Committee on National Statistics