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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