fire munitions and weapons that are approved for loading on an aircraft. This specification provides for electronic delivery of data through the use of the Document Type Definitions \(DTD\) contained in Appendixes A through K \(see 6.2\).

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the technical manual improvement reports shall be included, and shall reference TO 00-5-1 as the authority

for recommending changes. A paragraph shall be included identifying the Air Force activity having technical

responsibility for the manual. Standard deinitions of "WARNING," "CAUTION," and "NOTE" shall be

provided. The deinition of abbreviations shall be the inal entry of the foreword.

3.13.1.2 General procedures.

3.13.1.2.1 General safety requirements. This paragraph(s) shall contain all general safety requirements

necessary for the arming and saing or loaded of munitions.

3.13.1.2.2 Emergency procedures. This paragraph(s) shall contain emergency procedures related to

munitions-loaded.

3.13.1.3 Delayed Flight or Alert. This paragraph shall include steps required to ensure that safety devices

are installed or removed as required. All steps shall be plural.

3.13.1.4 Immediately Prior to Launch. This paragraph shall include steps required to place the aircraft in a

launch coniguration. All steps shall be plural.

3.13.1.5 Saing. This paragraph shall include steps required to safe the aircraft/weapons/munitions, and

install required safety devices. All steps shall be plural. The following "NOTE" shall be placed immediately

after the paragraph preceding the steps:

NOTE

Omission of the following step(s) may be authorized by the local

commander.

VERIFICATION

4.1 Veriication Requirements. When the technical data produced according to this speciication is

offered for acceptance, all tests, reviews, and veriications required by the acquiring activity to determine

that it conforms to the requirements in section 3 of the speciication, shall be performed as speciied

in the solicitation or contract. The Air Force Technical Order Policy and Procedures (AF TOPP) team,

AFMC/A4UE, provides the speciic requirements for veriication of technical data developed and delivered

through this speciication, as well as guidance for including these requirements in the solicitation or contract

(see TO 00-5-3, AF Technical Order Life Cycle Management, 2.2.2).

4.2 Compliance. Technical manuals (TMs) shall meet all requirements of section 3 of this speciication and

the appropriate DTD appendix, as required by the acquiring activity (see 6.2). The requirements set forth in

this speciication shall become a part of the contractor s overall inspection system or quality program.

The absence of any requirements in this speciication shall not relieve the contractor of the responsibility

of ensuring that all products or supplies, submitted to the government for acceptance, comply with all

requirements of the contract. Use of sampling inspections shall be at the discretion of the contractor, and in

accordance with commercially acceptable quality assurance procedures. However, use of sampling in QA

procedures does not authorize submission of known defective material, either indicated or actual, nor does it

commit the government to accept defective material.

PACKAGING

5.1 Packaging. For acquisition purposes, the packaging requirements shall be as speciied in the contract or

order (see 6.2). When actual packaging of material is to be performed by DoD personnel, these personnel

need to contact the responsible packaging activity to ascertain requisite packaging requirements. Packaging

requirements are maintained by the Inventory Control Point s packaging activity within the Military

Department or Defense Agency, or within the Military Department s System Command. Packaging data

retrieval is available from the managing Military Department s or Defense Agency s automated packaging

iles, CD-ROM products, or by contacting the responsible packaging activity.