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Federal Standard 595 is the color description and communication system developed in 1956 by the United States government. Its origins reach back to World War II when a problem of providing exact color specifications to military equipment subcontractors in different parts of the world became a matter of urgency.
Each vehicle-specific paint scheme consisted of a color placement pattern and a combination of four out of twelve colors from the Federal Standard 595 (FS595) color reference. [1] The colors and pattern scheme could be adjusted as the environments changed. [1] Military modelers often emulate the schemes when painting models and soldiers. [1]
The yellow-orange color, in three slight variants to allow for different paint formulations, [2] was adopted by the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) as Federal Standard No. 595a, Color 13432. Dr. Cyr became known as the "Father of the Yellow School Bus." [3]
The adjacent box displays the generic tone of international orange used by military contractors and in engineering generally.. The source of this color is Federal Standard 595, a U.S. federal government standard set up in 1956 for paint colors which is mostly used by military contractors and also in engineering.
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MIL-STD-967 covers the content and format for defense handbooks. MIL-SPEC: Defense Specification: A document that describes the essential technical requirements for military-unique materiel or substantially modified commercial items. MIL-STD-961 covers the content and format for defense specifications. MIL-STD: Defense Standard
MIL-STD-130, "Identification Marking of U.S. Military Property," is a specification that describes markings required on items sold to the Department of Defense (DoD), including the addition, in about 2005, of UII (unique item identifier) Data Matrix machine-readable information (MRI) requirements.
I restored the links to Fed-Std-595.com as I find them useful for reference purposes. I believe the deletion of these links with no explanation was akin to vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.8.131.231 04:41, February 14, 2008