IEEE RS Standards Status

IEEE 1633 Working Group, under the leadership of Dr. Ann Marie Neufelder, has begun planning to write the first modification to the recommended practice on software reliability, since it was initially published in 2008. This new draft is scheduled to be completed and approved by the IEEE Standards Board in December 2017. Dr. Neufelder recently submitted her Working Group Policy and Procedures (WG P&Ps) to the IEEE Standards Association Audit Committee (AudCom) for approval. First face-to-face meeting of the working group occurred on Tuesday, January 28, at the RAMS Symposium in Colorado Springs, CO. There were 8 attendees at the meeting, which included Dr. Neufelder, Dr. Fiondella, Taz Daughtrey, Ming Li, Lou Gullo, and Mike Kipness, a program manager from the IEEE Standards Association, who dialed in from the east coast. The meeting lasted 2 hours with a great exchange of knowledge between the participants.

IEEE P1856 Working Group, under the leadership of Dr Sony Mathews, has continued to conduct monthly meetings towards completion of the initial draft of the new standard on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). The working group is making good progress to develop a new draft for standards board approval by December 2016.

IEEE P61014 Working Group Chair has recently changed from Ms. Milena Krasich to Mr. Steven Li. Ms. Krasich is the ISO/IEC US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) representative for TC-56 (Dependability Standards). Mr. Li will interface with Ms. Krasich for development of the joint reliability growth standard between IEEE and IEC. Regular meetings with the IEEE P61014 Working Group are expected to start in mid-2014. The working group is committed to developing the new draft for IEEE Standards Board approval by December 2014.