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Defense Standard, often called a military standard, "MIL-STD", or "MIL-SPEC".Defense Standards are also used by other non-Defense government organizations, technical organizations, and industry.According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), military specifications "describe the physical and/or operational characteristics of a product", while military standards "detail the processes and materials to be used to make the product." Military handbooks, on the other hand, are primarily sources of compiled information and/or guidance. The GAO acknowledges, however, that the terms are often used interchangeably.
Defense Handbook - A guidance document containing standard procedural, technical, engineering, or design information about the materiel, processes, practices, and methods covered by the DSP.
Defense Specification - A document that describes the essential technical requirements for purchased materiel that is military unique or substantially modified commercial items.
Defense Standard - A document that establishes uniform engineering and technical requirements for military-unique or substantially modified commercial processes, procedures, practices, and methods. There are five types of defense standards: interface standards, design criteria standards, manufacturing process standards, standard practices, and test method standards.
DOD has standards about the format of standards:
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MIL-STD-961E, Defense and Program-Unique Specifications Format and Content, 1 August 2003, Dept. of Defense -
MIL-STD-962D, Defense Standards Format and Content, 1 August 2003, Dept. of Defense
List of DOD Standards and Specifications
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MIL-STD-105, Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes -
MIL-STD-188, a series related to telecommunications -
MIL-STD-202, quality standards for electronic parts. -
MIL-STD-498, on software development and documentation -
MIL-STD 461, on the control of electromagnetic emissions -
MIL-STD-810, test methods for determining the environmental effects on equipment -
MIL-STD-882, standard practice for system safety -
MIL-STD-883, test method standard for microcircuits [3] -
MIL-STD-1234, sampling, inspection, and testing of pyrotechnics -
MIL-STD-1246C, particle and molecular contamination levels for space hardware (has been replaced with IEST-STD-1246). -
MIL-STD-1474, a sound measurement for small arms standard -
MIL-STD-1553, a digital communications bus -
MIL-STD-1589, JOVIAL programming language -
MIL-STD-1750A, an instruction set architecture (ISA) for airborne computers -
MIL-STD-1760, smart-weapons interface -
MIL-STD-1815, Ada programming language -
MIL-STD-1913, Picatinny rail, a mounting bracket on firearms -
MIL-STD-2196, pertains to optical fiber communications
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