Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Acceptance Testing

This case study discusses a situation where both the government and contractor are working towards an acceptance protocol that would increase production throughput while properly balancing risk between the two parties. There are multiple competing risk factors in this instance: the risk to the Warfighter risk of accepting underperforming weapons (consumer’s risk), the risk of turning away quality weapons (producer’s risk), and the risk associated with reduced throughput and not meeting weapon fleet requirements.