Program Committee: Chair: Troy Schwartz, SRE, Boeing Vice Chairs: Dongmei Chen, IEEE-RS, STEA Rong Pan, ASQ-RRD, Arizona State University Zhimin Xi, IISE, Rutgers University Nat Jambulingam, SRE, NASA Tara Parhizkar, SAE, UCLA Ramin Moghaddass, IISE Miklos Szidarovszky, IEST, Raytheon Company Vinayak Hegde, SAE Jonathan Soliman, IEEE-RS Proceedings Editor: Joel Nachlas, Virginia Tech, Tutorials Committee: Chair: Caroline Lubert, SRE, James Madison University Vice Chairs: Vasiliy Krivtsov, IEEE-RS, The Ford Motor Company Bill Haughey, IEST, ReliaTrain James Young , SRE Arrangements Committee Chair: Walter Tomczykowski , ASQ-ECD, Tomczykowski Group LLC Vice Chairs: Thomas Elliott (Book), Boeing Pankaj Shrivastava (Hotel Liaison), ASQ-RRD, Halliburton Company Suzanne Schwitalla (Secretary/AV/Hospitality), IEEE-RS Publicity & Registration Committee Chair: Paul Franklin, IEST, Genpact Vice Chairs: Carol Parendo, ASQ-RRD, Collins Aerospace, Alex Attia, SRE Advanced Registration Consultant: Ken Dalton, Retired Reliability Engineer Exhibits Coordinator: David Barber, Scien-Tech Associates Advisory Board: David Coit, Rutgers University R. Chris DeLuca, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) Research and Engineering Ali Mosleh, University of California, Los Angeles Anthony DiVenti, NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Debra Herrera, Raytheon Company Pantelis Vassiliou, Vassiliou Ventures