General guidance for the Appendix F (ICD EMS Survivability) includes:

This Appendix is optional, unless there are specifics relevant to the recommendation and domain in which the SW-ICD is for.

- If not covered in the main document use this appendix to determine the EMS Survivability Risk Category and describe it IAW Annex C to Appendix G to Enclosure B, JCIDS Manual.

- EMS Survivability ensures warfighter systems are designed to prevent, mitigate, and recover from operations in congested and contested EMS environments.

- Applies to all systems that incorporate electrical or electronic components that might be susceptible to electromagnetic effects. However, not all of the EMS survivability attributes will apply to all systems.

- There are five EMS survivability attributes:

1. Spectrum Protection

2. System Adaptability

3. Spectrum Access Flexibility

4. Spectrum Efficiency, and

5. Multi-Functionality

- All systems that are vulnerable to adversarial employment of the EMS must comply with the Spectrum Protection attribute requirements, while only Spectrum Dependent Systems (SDS) (defined for this purpose as those that operate in the radio frequency (RF) portion of the spectrum) must comply with all five of these attributes.

- For more information pertaining to EMS Survivability, threat methodology, EMS Survivability Risk Category, Example language, and applicable SSAs, see the EMS Survivability Guidebook (Posted to the RM Community web site and to KM/DS).