scope:

This standard establishes and defines the requirements for applying human engineering to the development and acquisition of military systems, equipment, and facilities. These requirements include the work to be accomplished by a contractor or subcontractor in conducting a human engineering effort integrated with the total system engineering and development effort. These requirements are the basis for including human engineering in proposals; system, equipment, software, and facility analysis, design and test; and documentation and reporting.

This standard applies to the acquisition of military systems, equipment, and facilities; however, it is not intended that all the requirements contained herein should be applied to every program or program phase.

In accordance with DOD principles, directives and regulations governing the application and tailoring of specifications and standards to achieve cost effective acquisition and life cycle ownership of defense materiel, this standard shall be tailored to specific programs and the milestone phase of the program within the overall life cycle. This tailoring shall selectively apply methods, tables, sections, individual paragraphs, or sentences, or a combination thereof, to be placed on contract in order to impose essential human engineering requirements, consistent with avoiding unnecessary program costs. Guidance for the procuring activity's selection of this standard for contract use, and, when invoked,the partial and incremental application of the requirements provisions, are contained in Appendix A.

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