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SURVIVABILITY ENGINEERING

Survivability Engineering is an engineering discipline that applies scientific knowledge to incorporate survivability into the designs of infrastructure, information technology and military systems. The concept of protecting people and materiel is at the heart of the discipline.

History
Survivability engineering can loosely trace its origins back to ancient times when men developed shields and personal armour for themselves and their horses. Castles were built as fortifications with thick walls and featured guard towers allow standing patrols to detect arrival of enemy forces. Modern survivability engineering is still primarily a military realm, however new areas of concern in the private sector have spawned concerns that are business related and related to property damage.

Military
The following summarizes the objective of survivability engineering:

"The objective is to design the system to minimize losses when it operates in a manmade hostile environment. Designing to meet survivability requirements means considering an optimum mix of susceptibility and vulnerability designs for low susceptibility and low vulnerability. The goal is to develop and demonstrate protection technologies required to ensure survivable operation of warfighting assets in both the natural space environment and the hostile warfighting environment."