MIL-STD-46855A
1. SCOPE
1.1 Scope. This 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.
1.2 Applicability. This standard applies to the acquisition of military systems, equipment, and facilities. It is intended that these requirements be tailored to address the needs of each individual program or program phase.
1.3 Application guidance. In accordance with Department of Defense principles, directives and regulations governing the application and tailoring of specifications and standards to achieve cost effective acquisition and lifecycle ownership of defense materiel, this standard should be tailored to specific programs and the milestone phase of the program within the overall lifecycle. This tailoring should selectively apply methods, tables, sections, individual paragraphs, or sentences, or a combination thereof, to be placed on contract in order to impose essential human engineering requirements, consistent with avoiding unnecessary program costs. Criteria for the procuring activity's selection of this standard for contract use, and, when invoked, the partial and incremental application of the requirements provisions, are contained in Appendix A.
1.4 Section 508 compliance. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires that when Federal agencies develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology, Federal employees with disabilities have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access by Federal employees who are not individuals with disabilities. Acquisition programs will need to determine whether the requirements of Section 508 are applicable.
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