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Purpose.

This document establishes policy, provides guidance, and assigns responsibilities for the coordination of engineering technical review of risk, and for the formulation of engineering recommendations related to the issuance of bulletins and flight restrictions. It is applicable when coordinating an engineering recommendation involving potential grounding of aircraft, prevention of the launch of missiles, or the denial of use of related support equipment or munitions. These policies, guidance, and procedures are applicable to all Fleet operated equipment under Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) cognizance, and all aviation equipment undergoing developmental flight test and operational flight test. This revision incorporates processes to include the Fleet in risk management/risk acceptance for deployed systems.

This instruction applies to the agencies of NAVAIR and the associated Program Executive Offices (PEOs), Assistant Commander for Research and Engineering (AIR-4.0) personnel in their role as Level 2 Competency Managers, Assistant Program Executive Officers (APEOs), Assistant Program Managers, Systems and Engineering (APMSE), Integrated Safety Team members (AIR-09F), Integrated Program Team (IPT) members, and Fleet Support Team (FST) members.