Def Stan 23-009 specifies the mandatory standards to be used in the design and implementation of land vehicle platform electronic and power infrastructures, physical interfaces, HMI and Health & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS).

This part of Def Stan 23-009 provides the requirements for the collection, processing, storage of platform status data, including health and usage data, on the platform, and its export off vehicle platforms procured by the UK Ministry of Defence. This document at Issue 3 is immature in some areas and will require further definition, especially in the area of the required import and export interfaces, including XML schema definition.