Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR): Informing Milestone Decisions Through Modeling & Simulation for an Acquisition Category I Program

During the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) Phase of the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) acquisition program, the AMDR Product Support and Sustaining Engineering Team was challenged to ensure that the radar would meet an extremely high Operational Availability (Ao) Key Performance Parameter of 98.8 percent (well above usual Ao targets) at a defined Operations and Support (O&S) cost Key System Attribute.