This UFC contains guidance for Army, Navy and Air Force planners, engineers, and architects on the planning, engineering, and design of ATC and Air Operations Facilities, which include three facility types:

This Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) provides the design requirements necessary to reduce the potential of progressive collapse for new and existing facilities that experience localized structural damage through normally unforeseeable events.

Because buildings of three or more stories are subject to greater risk of progressive collapse, all buildings of three or more stories must comply with these standards, regardless of the standoff distance provided.