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Risk and reliability management of defence strategic systems which are intended to protect a country against adversary plays an important role in maximizing their operational effectiveness. Defence strategic systems comprise plethora of complex systems ranging from sensors, weapons, aircrafts, submarines, tanks, rockets, etc. operating in diverse conditions. Risk and reliability management is an integral part of system engineering process. Reliability management seeks to achieve high probability of satisfactory performance of equipment for specified duration under intended operating conditions, whereas risk management enables identification and quantification of risks and the measures to mitigate it. Quantitative judgment of the risks which is possible through system safety assessment tools is an important element of risk management process. Most accepted systems safety assessment tools among the engineers and scientists working in this area comprise functional hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, consequence techniques, failure mode effects and criticality analysis. Guidelines evolved envisaging greater application of systems safety assessment tools for risk and reliability management can be an input to formulate safety policy of an organization working in the area of defence strategic systems.
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Rajagopal, C., Deo Kumar, I. (2019). Risk and Reliability Management Approach to Defence Strategic Systems. In: Varde, P., Prakash, R., Joshi, N. (eds) Risk Based Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5796-1_6
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