scope:

This handbook provides guidance and criteria for establishing survivability requirements and conducting survivability plans and programs throughout the system life cycle for fixed and variable wing aircraft, helicopters and remotely-piloted vehicles. The survivability program will include a mix of threat avoidance, reconstitution and repairability, redundancy, and hardening techniques to enhance system survivability to the maximum practical extents.

This handbook applies to combat and combat support aircraft expected to be exposed to nonnuclear (i.e., conventional, chemical, biological, and directed energy) and nuclear threat environments. It is applicable to new and existing major and supporting non-major system acquisition programs, including relevant strategic and non-strategic systems. This handbook also applies to aircraft systems designated as requiring nuclear survivability, nuclear survivability high altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) only, and nuclear biological chemical (NBC) contamination survivability in accordance with DoDD 4245.4, DoDD 3150.3 and DoDI 4245.13.

This handbook will be referenced throughout the life cycle of the applicable aircraft systems, and its application should be tailored to the specific aircraft and operational requirements. It should be used as the basis for identifying survivability program tasks and requirements to be included in statements of work, system and item specifications, and contract data requirements lists which form parts of system acquisition contracts or requests for proposal.

This Appendix is for information only. The documents listed herein are intended for additional guidance and may be useful in the application of this handbook.

intended Use:

This handbook provides guidance and criteria for establishing nonnuclear and nuclear survivability requirements and conducting survivability programs for aircraft systems.