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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., June 19, 1970 To Emphasize Simplicity, Reliability, Maintainability . 'the PROMAP-7- 0 With restriction! in the Army funding and fence levels. General F. J. Chesarek, Commanding Ceneral of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, has stated that AMC must further emphasize simplicity, reliability and maintainability, especially for those major systems in development that will be fielded in the mid to late 1970s. As a result, a special Task Force in the Quality Assurance Directorate at Headquarters AMC has set out to improve reliability and maintainability of Army materiel. This Task Force is one of 50 now comprising the command's Program for the Refinement of the Materiel Acquisition Process (PROMAP-70- ). Materiel acquisition includes the research, development, procurement, and production involved in providing weapons and equipment for the Army. The Quality Assurance Directorate staffed by specialized engineers, and technicians develops total quality assessment policy and procedures for assurance of product quality, reand maintainability liability, performance of AMC materiel and systems. task force The PROMAP-7- 0 has concluded intensive studies of the life cycle erf selective hardware and equipment. 1 examined all four phases of Army materiel from the product quality of view: design and development; procurement and production; fielded equipment, and stockpile phase. In order to improve the quality performance of materiel the PROMAP-7- 0 task force came up with a program identified as RISE, Reliability Improvement of Selected Materiel, for AMCs commodity commands and project managers, Problem items that need improvement are clearly identified so as to determine which improvements offer the by greatest potential pay-of- f, either extending the military life of the equipment or reducing maintenance and logistic support costs. Field data derived from logistic and maintenance support costs, from demand rates for replacements or overhauls, and from accident rates are used for this purpose. The tad; force is emphasizing that extensive redesign of standard equipment is to be avoided. Only cost effective improvements are to be recommended. The task force has also underscored the importance of quality assurance activities in the stockpile phase of equipment and weapons. It has spelled out the primary mission of quality assurance, such as establishing serviceability standards - with engineering concurrence. The task force designs, develops and provides stockpile laboratory and firing program equipment, instrumentation and procedures, and conducts, at the appropriate com . modity center, stockpile e laboratory and furnishes supervision and firing programs. The PROMAP-7- 0 Task Force has also initiated an orientation and training program covering the AMC reliability pro-- t gram and current improvement on-sit- actions. It consists of a series of information briefings to orient AMC Headquarters personnel and commodity command and project manager personnel. Additionally, formal reliability and maintainability training at the Army Management Engineer 8 ing and Training Agency (AMETA) at Rock Island, 111., will be accelerated to accommodate approximately 150 personnel during calendar year 1970, with plans for increased participation in FY 71. - CHAMPUS: Difficult To Beat Health and Medical Benefits WASHINGTON (AFPS) -Todays serviceman is better off than his civilian counterpart in terms of health benefits, according to Brigadier Ceneral Louis Hackett, executive director of the Office of the CHAMPUS program. CHAMPUS Civilian Health And Medical Program of the Uniformed Services offers more liberal benefits than the most generous civilian health less Yet insurance program. than 10 per cent of those people who are eligible . . . use the program in any one year," ac - cording to Brig. Gen. Hackett. I would have to consider this the number one problem" of the CHAMPUS program. Brig. Gen. Hackett explained that dependent wives and children are eligible for the program, as well as retired personnel. He said, The law, as it currently stands, excludes from coverage under CHAMPUS routine examinations, routine immunizations, the furnishing of (glasses) and routine dental ' care. . . Those that are in a position where they can avail themselves of uniformed services facilities RECEIVE BRIEFING Members of an Environmental Characterization Working Group receive a briefing from Robert Burge during their visit to Deseret Test Center Headquarters and Dugway Proving Ground. The group consisted of reprosenta-tive- i from Egkn AFB, Pica tinny Arsenal, CRREL, and Waterways Experimental Sta-- COOL VIEW Lovely gtella Stevens can get most of these things mainder of the form the special done (there). services that were done. The general explained that information on the CHAMPUS gam program is readily available at any military installation or uniformed service hospital. He said, For 99 per cent of the care that the average dependent would get. . . there is a requirement for filling out 13, items on a form. And these are essentially identification items that establish eligibility of the patient to receive the care indicated. . . 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