MIL-STD-46855 Human Engineering Requirements For Military Systems, Equipment, And FacilitiesThis standard establishes and defines the requirements for applying human engineering to the design, development, and acquisition of military systems, equipment, and facilities. These requirements include the work to be accomplished in conducting a human engineering effort integrated with the total system engineering and development effort. These requirements are the basis for including human engineering in proposals; system, equipment, software and associated user interfaces, and facility analysis, design and test; and documentation and reporting.

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MIL-STD-46855A

FOREWORD

1. This Military Standard has been approved for use by all Departments and Agencies of the

Department of Defense.

2. MIL-STD-46855 is the primary tasking document used by the services to specify human engineering efforts during system acquisition. It supports the human factors engineering discipline independently or as a part of Human System Integration initiatives. MIL-STD-46855 is also written to accommodate a wide range of products, including small equipment items as well as major systems. This standard intentionally provides reasonable latitude for performing organizations to apply technical and program judgment and innovation consistent with specific procurements.

3. Human Systems Integration (HSI) is the systems engineering process and program management effort that provides integrated and comprehensive analysis, design, and assessment of requirements, concepts, and resources for human engineering, manpower, personnel, training, system safety, health hazards, personnel survivability, and habitability. These domains are intimately and intricately interrelated and interdependent and must be among the primary drivers of effective, efficient, affordable, and safe system designs. HSI integrates and facilitates trade- offs among these domains, but does not replace individual domain activities, responsibilities, or reporting channels.

4. As a result of striving to accommodate all service HSI initiatives, all acquisition phases, and a wide range of products, while avoiding overly restrictive requirements, this Standard furnishes somewhat general tasking provisions for analysis, design, test, and related requirements. A collateral result is a lack of detail. While MIL-STD-46855 defines the tasking and planning for a human engineering program, specific design criteria for the other domains is governed by each domain's documents.

5. Comments, suggestions, or questions on this document should be addressed to Army Research Development and Engineering Command Aviation and Missile Research and Engineering Center, ATTN: RDMR-SET, 5400 Fowler Road Redstone Arsenal, AL 35895-5000 or emailed to streview@amrdec.army.mil. Since contact information can change, you may want to verify the currency of this address information using the ASSIST Online database at https://assist.daps.dla.mil .