MIL-STD-196F
FOREWORD
This standard is approved for use by all Departments and Agencies of the Department of
Defense.
History. During the first World War, the Signal Corps Nomenclature System was devised when it was determined that a standard identification of electronic and associated equipment was needed. Since that time the system has grown and evolved into the current Joint Electronics
Type Designation Automated System (JETDAS) used throughout the DoD and select NATO
allies today.
The Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), formerly known as the Joint Army-Navy Nomenclature System (AN System) and the Joint Communications-Electronics Nomenclature System, was officially adopted on 16 February 1943 by the Joint Communications Board for Army-Navy use. It was approved for use for all new U.S. Army and U.S. Navy airborne, radio, and radar equipment. The Joint Communications Board then approved the extension of the scope of the system to include equipment designed by the Navy specifically for Marine Corps and amphibious use. In 1946, the Bureau of Ships, Department of the Navy, adopted the system for use on ship, submarine, and ground electronic equipment. Also that year, similar action was taken by the Bureau of Ordnance, Department of the Navy to cover the electronic portions of its fire-control systems. The U.S. Air Force, upon its establishment as a separate Department, continued the use of the system for electronic equipment. In 1950, the U.S. Coast Guard adopted the system to identify electronic equipment under its development. In
1951, the Joint Communications-Electronics Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved Canadian integration into the nomenclature system. The Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Department of the Army, adopted the system for its use in 1953. In 1957 the Department of Defense approved the original MIL-STD-196 "Joint Electronics Type Designation System." In
1959, the National Security Agency (NSA) adopted the system. In 1974, a Joint Service regulation established and assigned responsibilities to the Services for requesting nomenclature. Chief, Office of International Research Development and Standardization, Department of the Army, directed implementation of MIL-STD-196 for integration of New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain into the system in 1981. In 1998, under direction of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, (OUSD), JETDS was migrated into a paperless database system, and the Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System (JETDAS) was created.
Nomenclature is a language of its own. It was developed to augment and complement the stock numbering system. It serves as a tool for equipment managers and logistics and maintenance personnel by providing a specific and understandable identification of an item. Nomenclature identifies equipment at the system, subsystem, set, group or unit level. It identifies what kind of equipment it is, where it is used, and what it is used for. It provides an
indication of interchangeability and substitutability. Official nomenclature is used on equipment name plates, shipping containers, technical documents, maintenance manuals, and throughout official correspondence and communications. Nomenclature is embedded throughout our DoD weapon systems and equipment.
ii
For Parts Inquires call Parts Hangar, Inc (727) 493-0744
© Copyright 2015 Integrated Publishing, Inc.
A Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business