REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Sharne' Rice is an operations research analyst supporting the Engineering Directorate's Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Division. Rice supports various reliability improvement projects on the Apache helicopter to improve the life of the Warfighter.
She also provides quantitative research and analysis for field data received from maintainers using RAM's Aviation System Assessment Program, or ASAP.
"I come to work each day understanding that my most important job is to keep our Soldiers in the air and ensure they return safely to their families," said Rice. "Being in RAM has been very exciting. Reliability is an important parameter, so I enjoy being a part of different phases in the life cycle. Also, working with reliability requires you to think outside the box to reach some solutions. I have been blessed to have leaders that constantly encourage me to go beyond the norm."
By assessing metrics, such as Mean Time Between Failures, Rice is constantly looking for the story line that caused a component to fail and what the team can do to decrease the number of failures. By improving failure metrics it improves Army readiness.
Rice graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics. She is on the Board of Directors for Decatur Morgan County DMDA Young Professionals, a participant in the Leadership Huntsville Madison County Connect Program (C20), and a member of Society of Reliability Engineers. Rice also mentioned she tutors in her free time.
"I tutor math to make sure my brain doesn't forget the Pythagorean Theorem."
Rice is a self-proclaimed foodie that is always looking for a new restaurant to try in Huntsville.
"I love music, so you will catch me at a concert, or any live music scene. I am very involved with my local church."
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The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, which has the mission to provide innovative research, development and engineering to produce capabilities for decisive overmatch to the Army against the complexities of the current and future operating environments in support of the Joint Warfighter and the Nation. RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command.
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