Surface Warfare
Program Manager's Guide

Human Systems Integration
(HSI)

Human systems integration (HSI) is the discipline dedicated to ensuring that Navy systems are designed, produced, supported, fielded, and modernized based on a complete and careful integration of requirements for the human into the system, specifically requirements for human performance, human availability, human utilization, health and safety, and accommodation of the human.


The Surface Warfare Program Manager’s Guide to HSI is structured into three components, as follows:

1) The Program Manager’s Guide Overview (Volume 1), intended for the Program Manager and the Executive Level of the Program Office, it presents a top level overview of HSI, and requirements for applying HSI in the context of four different types of surface warfare system acquisition strategies:

• Acquisition of a new system, following the process described in DoD 5000.2R.
• Modernization and Upgrade.
• Prototype to Production Acquisition.
• COTS NDI Acquisition .

2) The Program Manager’s Guide Manual (Volume 2) is directed at the person in the Program Office who has been relegated the responsibility for implementing HSI in the acquisition of the surface warfare system. This Manual has two components:

• Activities and associated guidelines for applying HSI in the acquisition of surface warfare systems for each of the acquisition strategies listed above.
• Criteria for evaluating HSI processes, products, and progress within each phase of surface warfare system acquisition, for each acquisition strategy.

3) The Program Manager’s Guide HSI Process (Volume 3) – a web-based interactive detailed depiction of the processes, process steps and associated requirements for applying HSI principles, methods, tools and data in each phase of the acquisition process for each of the acquisition strategies listed above.