Our urgent requirements to improve the operational performance of weapon systems while reducing their operating and support costs can be met only by improving their quality and reliability. Environmental stress screening (ESS) has been shown to be a significant aid towards meeting these objectives.
This document is the culmination of work that began in the mid-1980s when industry, with Government encouragement, initiated the revision and improvement of existing Government ESS guidelines. The Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force have collaborated in its preparation. It provides guidance for implementing the ESS requirements in DoD Instruction 5000.2, encouraging consistency in interpretation among all three services.
By providing a single source of ESS management methods, engineering guidance, best practices and issues to be considered in preparing contracts, this document will help program managers, project engineers, and contracting officers implement a successful environmental stress screening program. We encourage you to use it.
LLOYD K. MOSEMANN, II
Deputy Assistant Secretary
(Communications, Computers, and Support Systems)
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)
W.J. WILLOUGHBY, JR. Director,
Product Integrity Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
(Research, Development and Acquisition)
STEPHEN R. R. BURDT
Director for Program Evaluation
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Research, Development and Acquisition)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TRI-SERVICE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS SCREENING
Douglas O. Patterson U. S. Navy OASN(RD&A) PI Chairman
Louis C. Gills U. S. Navy OASN(RD&A) PI MAJ
Kevin Kirlin U. S. Air Force SAF/AQXM
Dr. Pat Larter U. S. Air Force SM-ALC
Bobby G. Whiteley U. S. Army AMCRD-1C
Frank DiGiovanni U. S. Army CECOM
INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS SCREENING OF ELECTRONIC HARDWARE
DOCUMENT REVIEW WORKING GROUP
Michael W. Gust Mitre Corporation Bedford, MA Chairman
Henry J. Caruso Westinghouse Electric Corp Baltimore, MD
Jack Dunn Mitre Corporation Bedford, MA
Dr. Pat Larter U. S. Air Force Colorado Springs, CO
C.E. Mandel, Jr. Consultant Laguna Hills, CA
Arthur A. McGill Lockheed Missiles / Space Co Sunnyvale, CA
George Miller Naval Air Warfare Center Indianapolis, IN
Michael A. Roy Westinghouse Electric Corp Baltimore, MD
Edward A. Szymkowiak Westinghouse Electric Corp Baltimore, MD
Doug Allison Litton Guidance/Control Sys Woodland Hills, CA
Rudy S. Cazanjian GTE Government Systems Mountain View, CA
James R. Marano Alliant Techsystems Hopkins, MN
