The public standards, reports and primary documents this topic draws on. Every factual claim in the preceding chapters traces to one of these; the worked example's numeric values are illustrative and belong to no source.
Standards and handbooks
- MIL-HDBK-338B, Electronic Reliability Design Handbook, US Department of Defense, 1 October 1998 (Section 6.3, Reliability Apportionment/Allocation: equal apportionment, ARINC, feasibility-of-objectives and the minimisation-of-effort algorithm; Section 7.7.3.2 for the AGREE method).
- MIL-STD-785B, Reliability Program for Systems and Equipment Development and Production, US Department of Defense, 1980 (reliability allocation as a formal programme task).
- AMCP 706-196, Engineering Design Handbook: Design for Reliability, US Army Materiel Command, 1976 (the feasibility-of-objectives technique's source lineage).
Primary reports and documents
- Advisory Group on Reliability of Electronic Equipment (AGREE), Reliability of Military Electronic Equipment, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, 4 June 1957 (the allocation method by unit complexity, importance and operating time).
- Department of Defense Directive 5128.8, Advisory Group on Reliability of Electronic Equipment, Committee on Electronics, 21 August 1952 (the group's founding charter).
Literature
- W. H. von Alven (ed.), Reliability Engineering, ARINC Research Corporation, Prentice-Hall, 1964 (the ARINC apportionment technique; the reference MIL-HDBK-338B itself cites for the method).
For the prediction-side sources of the allocated-versus-predicted comparison (MIL-HDBK-217F and the wider prediction model landscape), see the Reliability Prediction references.