MilCAN has been defined by a group of interested companies and government bodies associated with the specification, manufacture and test of military vehicles.
MilCAN was formed in 1999 as a sub-group of the International High Speed Data Bus - Users Group (IHSDB-UG) when a need was recognised to standardise the implementation of CANbus
within the military vehicles community. The mission statement of this newly formed group was “To develop, for various application classes in all military vehicles, a common interface implementation
specification based on CANbus”.