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Defense standards are also used by other non-defense government organizations, technical organizations, and industry. This article discusses definitions, history, and usage of defense standards. Related documents, such as defense handbooks and defense specifications, are also addressed.
A definition by UK Defense Standard 00-56 Issue 4 states: [3] Such an evidence-based approach can be contrasted with a prescriptive approach to safety certification, which require safety to be justified using a prescribed process. Such standards typically do not explicitly require an explicit argument for safety and instead rest on the ...
Integrated logistics[1] support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost and decrease demand for logistics by the maintenance system optimization to ease the product support. Although originally developed for military purposes, it is also widely used in commercial customer service organisations.
9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) Complement. 6. The ramped craft logistic (RCL) is a type of landing craft operated by 17 Port and Maritime Regiment RLC of the Royal Logistic Corps of the British Army. From the early 1980s onwards it was deployed to replace the RPL (ramped powered lighter). One of their first roles was to provide logistical support ...
Generic Vehicle Architecture. The Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) approach is the approach taken by the UK MOD to design the electronic and power architectures for military vehicles. It also includes requirements for standardisation of the Human Machine interface. The main requirements for this approach are published in Defence Standard 23 ...
The Allied Quality Assurance Publications (AQAP) are standards for quality assurance systems developed by NATO. [1][2] The aim of the AQAP agreement is to define standards for Quality Assurance of defence products. These standards are an integral part of contracts awarded in the military field involving NATO member countries.
The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) is the formal United States Department of Defense (DoD) process which defines acquisition requirements and evaluation criteria for future defense programs. [1] JCIDS was created to replace the previous service-specific requirements generation system that allowed redundancies in ...
As low as reasonably practicable (ALARP), or as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA), is a principle in the regulation and management of safety-critical and safety-involved systems. [1][2] The principle is that the residual risk shall be reduced as far as reasonably practicable. In UK and NZ Health and safety law, it is equivalent to so far as ...