According to the DoD the MIL-STD-188-200 series “ contains current tactical communications, technical standards and design objectives … series includes appropriate unclassified design objectives and tactical communications systems technical standards … Appropriate communications-electronics systems standards and design objectives developed under joint projects … are integrated in the tactical communications standards .”

Often the type of appropriate technology that is used in developed countries is " Appropriate and Sustainable Technology " ( AST ); or appropriate technology that, besides being functional and relatively cheap ( though often more expensive than true AT ), is also very durable and lasts a long time ( AT does not include this ; see Sustainable design ).

* The Appropriate Technology Collaborative – An appropriate technology design and dissemination nonprofit.

Appropriate design factors are based on several considerations, such as the accuracy of predictions on the imposed loads, strength, wear estimates, and the environmental effects to which the product will be exposed in service ; the consequences of engineering failure ; and the cost of over-engineering the component to achieve that factor of safety.

Appropriate instrumentation, survey design, and data processing are essential for success, and must be adapted to the unique geology and archaeological record of each site.

During that decade, Bender was also the co-editor of RAIN: A Journal of Appropriate Technology, and among the theorists and practitioners of the " green " approach to planning and design, has been a popular essayist since that time.

Appropriate instrumentation, field survey design, and data processing are essential for success, and must be adapted to the unique geology and archaeological record of each site.

Staff must be encouraged to work together to analyze student curriculum needs, develop a broad instruction plan, set information literacy goals, and design specific unit and lesson plans that integrate the information skills and classroom content.

Students must design lesson plans and present them to the staff prior to offering their class.

Convinced of the value of the project, the PLATO system was re-designed, between 1963 and 1969 ; PLATO III allowed " anyone " to design new lesson modules using their TUTOR programming language, conceived in 1967 by biology graduate student Paul Tenczar.

In February 2006 the Ohio Board of Education voted to drop the Discovery Institute's " Critical Analysis of Evolution " intelligent design lesson plan after the 2005 ruling against intelligent design in Kitzmiller v. Dover and revelations that the lesson plan was adopted despite warnings from the Ohio Department of Education, whose experts described it as wrong and misleading.

Having come closest to accomplishing getting ID into public school science classes in Kansas and Ohio where they succeeded in getting the State Board of Education to adopt ID lesson plans, intelligent design proponents advocated " teach the controversy " as a legally defensible alternative to teaching intelligent design.

The Discovery Institute, hub of the intelligent design movement, played a central role in starting the hearings by promoting its Critical Analysis of Evolution lesson plan < ref >

The design phase deals with learning objectives, assessment instruments, exercises, content, subject matter analysis, lesson planning and media selection.