Military Specifications and Standards

The IHS Military product line offers a variety of specifications and standards solutions needed for research and design, purchasing, bidding, logistics and related applications. It simplifies the complicated research associated with military contracts and can help you comply with ISO 9000 series standards and other quality initiatives.

Access to military specifications and standards is driven by powerful, easy-to-use search software and supporting tools. All the collection documents are accessible through a single source, whether online or "behind the firewall," and assist the user to make quick decisions regarding military guidelines.

Over 400,000 U.S. Military and Federal specifications and 8,000 US Department of Defense (DoD) adopted standards from multiple standards development organization are included in the more than 1.3 M technical standards and related documents in the Specs & Standards Index. Specs & standards is the world's largest bibliographical database of active and historical standards, specifications, drawings, handbooks and related technical documents.

Military specifications and standards are divided into the following collections:

• Active mil specs
• DoD adopted standards
• Historical mil specs
• JTA referenced standards collection
• Naval instructions and directives
• NASA documents
• Federal construction regulations (FCR)
• NATO documents
• DoD directives
• Army regulations and pamphlets

Military specification and standards collections include:

• Active mil specs
• DoD adopted standards
• Historical mil specs
• JTA referenced standards collection
• Naval instructions and directives
• NASA documents
• Federal construction regulations (FCR)
• NATO documents
• DoD directives
• Army regulations and pamphlets

IHS offers multiple methods to obtain military standards and specifications. They include:

• Internet - IHS Standards Expert™ - subscription, custom collections, or individual document purchases
• Intranet - IHS Intra/Spex - "behind the firewall" solution for companies with no/restricted internet access
• DVD - index and documents on DVD
• Integration - various options, including XML feeds and web services
• Specialized delivery -customized distribution systems, allowing users to find, manage and share standards data

Over 1.2 million standards documents from over 370 standards developing organizations (SDO's) are available for purchase either by subscription or individual document.

Statistics show that 1 out of every 5 people who purchase individual documents benefit from an online subscription. If your company spends more than $3,000 in standards per year, you should consider a subscription.

With a subscription, you have access to IHS Standards Expert™, simplifying searches and navigation. With Standards Expert, you can discern relevant standards, quickly add documents to "Favorites" lists, add standards to watch lists, save searches and preferences and use simplified full-text searching.

Capabilities include:

• Expert searching
• Managing favorites
• Alerts and watch lists
• Personalization

IHS Reference Linking Solutions provide secured direct access to critical external content (e.g. specifications, standards & regulations) referenced from within your organization's documents and workflow processes.

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