During the system development phase, SoHaR personnel perform the following activities:

• Statements Of Work (SOW): Definition of the tasks, schedules, and deliverables for reliability, maintainability, and logistics programs on large, as well as small, projects.
• Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Specifications: Definition of the reliability, maintainability, and availability requirements that will support the customer's operational concepts.
• R&M Allocation, Prediction and Analysis: Determining the best allocation of subsystem lower level R&M requirements from top level R&M requirements.
• Cost-Effectiveness and Trade-Off analysis: Modeling, prediction, and financial analysis to determine the most cost effective options for reliability, sparing, training, response time, and other support resources.
• Life Cycle Cost: Prediction of life cycle costs from the research through the operational phases.
• Optimal Repair Level Analysis (ORLA/LORA): Determining the best maintenance and repair concepts to support the operational phases.
• Participation in design reviews at the hardware, software, and system levels.