Proposed Draft Military Specification for Revisable Data Base for Support ofInteractive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs)

摘要

The report summarizes recent activities in the Department of Defense and in theUS Navy, Army, and Air Force to establish Service use of Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) as replacements for paper Technical Manuals for logistic support of military equipment. The IETM concept is described, and an overview is provided of five IETM acquisition Specifications and Military Handbooks developed by the Tri-Service Interactive Electronic Technical Manual Working Group established in 1989 by the Defense Quality and Standardization Office. One of these five draft documents, MIL-D-IETMOB Revisable Data Base for Support of Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMS), 1 Jun 1990, is described and presented. (Four other companion Reports have been prepoared to introduce and describe the four related IETM acquisition Specifications and Handbooks). This report introduces the concept of the Revisable IETM Data Base, which serves as a basis for the construction of View Packages and as a source of other system-related logistics-support Technical Information required by various IETM users in a number of different activities throuhout each Service. Keywords: Computer aided acquisition, Logistics support, Electronic displays, Specifications, Standards, Handbooks. (KR)