This military handbook provides guidance and information to DoD acquisition managers, logistics managers, and other individuals who are assigned responsibility for CM. Its purpose is to assist them in planning for and implementing effective DoD CM activities and practices during all life cycle phases of defense systems and CIs. It supports acquisition based on performance specifications and the use of industry standards and methods to the greatest practicable extent. This handbook has been revised to remove duplication of the industry handbook SAE-GEIA-HB0649. Throughout this document there are references to sections in the industry handbook where low level details may be found in the execution of CM.