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What does AO stand for?

Operational Availability


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Subject to operational availability, we expect to hear from both a driver and a train steward about their duties and responsibilities in taking a train to and from Marylebone.
SELEX Galileo will manage the operational availability of a large part of the aircraft s avionics suite both for equipment designed in-house and by other companies.
Ensure that the assessment of sustainability risk is not principally based on operational availability (Ao) or materiel availability (MA).
The Navy has used multiple crews on some submarines and surface ships and has shown it to increase a ship's operational availability.
Operational availability of Harriers, which was already below the required level, dipped at the outset of the change programme in 2003, but since the end of last year the number of planes fit for action has met the RAF's targets, said the report.
Attempts to explain in the context of operational availability were greeted with the retort, "Look, when a car has a flat tire, you don't get a bunch of people to lift up the car, you use a jack
Operational availability is considered a function of reliability and maintainability.
When lost time for maintenance is added, you can arrive at the true operational availability.

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