Quanterion Solutions Incorporated, was formed by professionals with over 80 years of reliability engineering analysis experience. Founders Preston MacDiarmid, Seymour Morris, and David Mahar started the company with a goal of providing high quality quantitative engineering services to be used as criterion for critical decision making, hence the name Quanterion. All principals have had significant roles in the reliability, maintainability, and quality fields at the Department of Defense Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), now the Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), and at the US Air Force's Rome Laboratory (renamed Air Force Research Laboratory Rome Site). MacDiarmid served as Director of the RAC for 10 years after a 17 year career at Rome Laboratory leading the DoD's largest R&D program in reliability. Morris had DoD responsibility for reliability analysis methodology, including responsibility for MIL-HDBK-217 "Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment" for 10 years. Mahar had responsibility for all RAC software and databases, such as the Automated Data Book CD-ROM incorporating RAC's widely used Nonelectronic Parts Reliability Data (NPRD-95), Failure Mode/Mechanism Distribution Data (FMD-97) and Electronic Parts Reliability Data (EPRD-97). He also personally programmed the RAC's reliability analysis tool, "PRISM®," currently being updated to "217Plus" under the new RIAC contract, which is viewed as a methodology more realistic than other approaches available. Other accomplishments of the team include coauthoring all three editions of the "Reliability Toolkit" series and the six part series "RAC Blueprints for Product Reliability", the "RAC Component Application Series", the reliability toolset marketed as "QuART", and the Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program "PROTOCOL" (for Product Reliability On-Line Tools Collection).