MIL-HDBK-817 Base Document:1994

1. SCOPE
   1.1 Background
   1.2 Document application
   1.3 Relationship to MIL-HDBK-814, MIL-HDBK-815, and
        MIL-HDBK-816
   1.4 Document objectives
2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
   2.1 Documents for hardness assurance programs
   2.2 Military standard test methods
   2.3 ASTM dosimetry standards
   2.4 ASTM electrical measurement and radiation test
        standards
   2.5 Important documents: special attention
   2.6 Device data bases
3. DEFINITIONS
   3.1 Key definitions
   3.2 Commonly used terms
   3.3 Acronyms
4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
   4.1 The hardness assurance program
   4.2 Features of HA programs
5. DETAILED REQUIREMENTS
   5.1 HA program definition
   5.2 System development background: hostile threats
   5.3 Life cycle survivability and hardness approach
   5.4 HA program in life cycle survivability
   5.5 Program management: documentation of roles
   5.6 Government project manager (or SPO) HA activities
   5.7 Contractor HA activities
   5.8 Program development: HA through engineering and
        manufacturing development (EMD)
   5.9 HA during production
   5.10 Other hardness assurance considerations statistical
   5.11 Summary
6. REFERENCES
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Gives guidance in defining HA activities commensurate with the threat nuclear weapon and space radiation environment and with the concept of balanced hardening to all hostile environments. These guidelines are aimed primarily at system development agencies, project managers and their contractors.