Product assurance of PATRIOT air defense system

PATRIOT is a highly sophisticated air-defense guided-missile system designed to be effective against aircraft representing the field army defense threat of the 1980s and 1990s. An overview is given of this comprehensive system which satisfies reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis requirements and which now functions to monitor system performance and support related product assurance efforts. A user-friendly computer prompting system is available to local and remote authorized users to access product assurance data specific to their needs. These data serve to monitor system performance with respect to requirements, highlight problem situations, identify items which require improvement, and provide feedback to both the military users and the various manufacturer´s groups concerned with the PATRIOT system and associated with its design, production, and support