Volume 23
(Learn About the Nov 5th, 2009 Terrorist Attack on Fort Hood.
The worst mass shooting in history, at a U.S. Military Base. Post-
ed on Mar 13, 2014)
is prescribed by MIL-STD 3007
and provides
May 2018 Edition
planning, design, construction, sustainment,
restoration, and modernization criteria, and
applies to the Military Departments, the De-
fense Agencies, and the DoD Field Activities
in accordance with USD(AT&L) Memorandum
dated 29 May 2002.
UFCs will be used for all DoD projects and work
for other customers where appropriate.
All construction outside of the United States is
The UFCs are a series of guidelines pub- also governed by Status of forces Agreements
lished by the DOD that govern various as- (SOFA), Host Nation Funded Construction Agree-
ments (HNFA), and in some instances, Bilateral
pects of building design and construction
Infrastructure Agreements (BIA.)
and run the gamut from runway construc-
tion to roof design.
Therefore, the acquisition team must ensure
compliance with the more stringent of the UFC,
They are divided into series or groupings based on the SOFA, the HNFA, and the BIA, as applicable.
subject matter.
UFCs are living documents and will be peri-
The four series are dedicated to security issues.
odically reviewed, updated, and made avail-
able to users as part of the Services’ respon-
BACKGROUND
sibility for providing technical criteria for
The Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) system military construction.
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