MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications. Purpose Faced with “past technical deficiencies in telecommunications systems and equipment and software…that were traced to basic inadequacies in the application of telecommunication standards and to the lack of a well defined…program for their review, control and implementation”, the U.S. Department of Defense looked to develop a series of standards that would alleviate the problem. By 19… (More on Mil-std-188)