scope:

This document establishes the content and procedural packaging requirements for technical manuals (TMs), revisions, supplements, and changes.

This packaging document supplements the various content requirements in the other parts to this 11-part standard for specific types of technical manuals and related publications and does not alone deliver any technical data.

The applicability of the requirements contained in this document is governed by the commodity to be packaged (e.g., final reproducible copy (FRC), illustrations, etc.) and the acquisition documents citing this document. This document, is applicable for use by the Department of the Army.

This document contains some requirements that may not be applicable for all technical manuals. Selective application and tailoring of requirements contained in this document are the responsibility of the contracting activity and shall be accomplished through the use of MIL-M-63008. The applicability of some requirements is also designated by one of the following statements:

- unless requirement is specifically excluded by the contracting activity; or

- as/when specified by the contracting activity.

intended Use:

This document prescribes the packaging requirements applicable to various types of technical manuals, revisions, supplements, and changes prepared by or for the Department of the Army.