DAFMAN91-118 governs safety design criteria for nuclear weapon systems, including their design, development, modification, evaluation, operation, and acquisition.
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It covers nuclear weapon system safety philosophy, general and electrical design, hazard prevention, and arming and fuzing systems. Compliance with the publication is mandatory, and its requirements use tiered waiver authorities.
Applies to: It applies to all organizations that design, develop, modify, evaluate, operate or acquire a nuclear weapon system.
If there is conflicting guidance between this DAFI and any DoD series or published higher-level guidance, the DoD series or published higher-level guidance takes precedence.
The authorities to waive wing, unit, or delta level requirements in this publication are identified with a Tier (“T-0, T-1, T-2, T-3”) number following the compliance statement.
Submit requests for waivers through the chain of command to the appropriate Tier waiver approval authority, or alternately, to the requestor’s commander for non-tiered compliance items.