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Southwest Research Institute and the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command designed and developed an automated system for the preparation of deficiency report analysis information reports ( Engineers and equipment specialists responsible for the troublesome part, or end item, review the MDR to identify the possible cause(s) of failure. In the past, engineers and equipment specialists have turned to operations research (OR) analysts to assist in item performance analysis. This analysis is usually time consuming and personnel intensive and requires information from many Air Force data systems. At the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (ALC), located at Tinker Air Force Base, data collection and analysis require two person-days. This document describes an item's SOURCE DATA: The data used to prepare this report came from the following sources: 1) Product Performance Subsystem (G099), 2) Supportability analysis Forecasting Evaluation (SAFE), 3) Flying Hours (G099), 4) MICAP Hours (D165B), and 5) VAMOSC (D160B).