DITA’s flexibility and modularity make it an ideal choice for integrating content from various sources and systems into defense documentation. It enables content reuse and collaboration across teams and systems, resulting in more comprehensive and cohesive documentation. DITA achieves this through its structured approach to content authoring and its ability to manage content components as reusable, standalone topics or maps.

For example, in a defense project, you may need to integrate technical specifications from a specialized engineering system, procedural instructions from a separate documentation tool, and visual aids from a design software. DITA allows each piece of content to be authored and managed independently as DITA topics. These topics can then be organized into DITA maps that serve as a master document, pulling content from different sources into a single, coherent document.

Example:

Consider a defense manual that needs to incorporate content from various sources, including CAD drawings and specifications from an engineering system. With DITA, the content can be seamlessly integrated into a DITA map:

<map id="defense-manual" product="defense-systems">
  <title>Defense System Manual</title>
  <topicref href="engineering-specs.dita" />
  <topicref href="procedural-instructions.dita" />
  <topicref href="visual-aid.dita" />
  <topicref href="troubleshooting-guide.dita" />
  <topicref href="glossary.dita" />
</map>

In this example, the DITA map references content from various sources, allowing for the seamless integration of diverse information into the defense manual, ensuring a unified and comprehensive document.