MIL-HDBK-1857, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HANDBOOK: GROUNDING, BONDING AND SHIELDING DESIGN PRACTICES (27 MAR 1998) [SUPERSEDING MIL-STD-1857]., This standard covers the characteristics of grounding, bonding, and shielding design practices to be applied in the construction and installation of marine, fixed station, transportable, and ground mobile equipment, subsystem, and system.