Chairperson:

        
Manufacturing status and risk evaluations have been performed as part of defense acquisition programs for years in a variety of forms. Created in 2001, Manufacturing Readiness Levels provide a measurement scale and vocabulary for assessing and discussing manufacturing maturity and risk. Over the past 10 years, a Joint DoD-Industry MRL Working Group has developed a body of knowledge containing definitions, a detailed MRL criteria matrix, and guidebook, and an MRL Deskbook. This Deskbook provides all the information requires for Program Managers to perform program assessments using MRLs.

The DoD MRL Working Group is inviting presentations on MRL implementation and lessons learned from assessments on programs throughout the acquisition cycle. This includes the use or application of MRLs by either government or industry programs, and throughout the supply chain. Topic of special interest include: cost and benefits from MRL assessments; outcomes and impacts from MRL use on program plans; manufacturing risk identification and mitigation; timing and tempo of MRL assessments; joint industry-DoD management of MRL assessments; tailoring of MRL threads for industry-sectors; and use of tools and methods.