scope:

This handbook provides guidance and lessons learned in the selection of documentation for the design of electronic equipment. This handbook is for guidance only. This handbook cannot be cited as a requirement. If it is, the contractor does not have to comply.

Revisions of individual guidelines are indicated by a date below the guideline number located at the bottom of the page. When the basic document is revised, those guidelines not affected by change retain their existing date.

Although individual guidelines are reviewed and updated or validated at least once every eighteen months, guidelines are not redated unless technical changes are made.

Guidelines contained herein should be referenced by specifying this handbook and the guideline number for guidance only.

Each guideline is intended to cover some discipline in the design of equipment, such as a procedure, a process or the selection and application of parts and materials. Many of these disciplines, however, cannot retain a clear-cut separation or isolation from others so that when guidelines of MIL-HDBK-454 are referenced in a specification some guidelines will undoubtedly have a direct interrelationship with other guidelines. This interrelationship should be taken into consideration when referencing these guidelines.