scope:

This handbook includes information on design for discard that is useful to the intended audience and is not otherwise conveniently available. Detailed engineering design and evaluation is beyond the scope of this handbook.

Additional information on specific engineering topics is readily available in Army documents and in the open literature, such as books, professional journals, trade magazines, advertising material, short courses, and conference and symposium proceedings. Appendix A lists some of the professional societies involved in such activities and some of the appropriate trade magazines.

The material covered in this handbook ranges from advocacy of design for discard through design and system considerations to program principles. The technical level of the material is appropriate to the intended audience. There is virtually no mathematics in this handbook although considerable reference is made to such material.