The Interactive Electronic Technical Manual Overview

"Setting the Stage"

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Eric L. Jorgensen

Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a general overview of DoD Interactive Electronic Technical

Manuals (IETMs) and opens with a short discussion of the problems leading up to the

need for IETMs, the general characteristics of an IETM, and an identification of the

major research programs in the three Services leading up to IETMs. It then discusses

the need for standards to define this new presentation medium and the general areas for

which initial standards have been developed for "new start" weapons programs.

However, with the close of the Cold War, many new-start programs have been delayed

and the emphasis in DoD is on converting existing TMs into IETMs. The three services

have developed a variety of applications to effect this conversion and the paper itemizes

a set of categories or Classes to group the varying emerging applications of IETM-like

and near-IETM systems. The paper includes a discussion of what is and what is not an

IETM, and finishes with a call for standards for each of the emerging Electronic

Technical Manual Classes.

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