General References

The following reference documents provide guidance and insight for the planning and management of Configuration Management on an acquisition program.  The CM Navigator contains hyperlinks to a few of these references but the user should verify that the latest official version is actually being used.  The ASSIST database (http://assist2.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/) can help do this.

Government Documents

MIL-HDBK-61A^[1], Configuration Management, is the primary reference for accomplishing Configuration Management within DoD.  MARCORSYSCOM has accepted it as the basic "How-To" CM reference and will not publish a CM Handbook. (NOTE: MIL-HDBK-61A has not yet been updated in accordance with the new DoDI 5000.2, May 2003)

MIL-HDBK-61A provides guidance to military acquisition program and CM managers in relating industry EIA^[2]-649 to their programs in the environment of the standard DoD CM AIS and the practices associated with performance-based acquisition.

MIL-HDBK-248B, Acquisition Streamlining

MIL-HDBK-512, Parts Management

MIL-HDBK-881, Work Breakdown Structure

MIL-STD-100, DoD Standard Practice for Engineering Drawings.  [MIL-STD-100G was replacement by a revised ASME Y14.100 and ASME Y14.34M] This standard provides essential guidance in numbering, coding, and identification of products and parts on engineering drawings and, by extension, in engineering model digital data sets.  It supplements the information in the following industry drawing standards:

• ASME^[3] Y14.24M, Engineering Drawing Types
• ASME Y14.34M, Associated Lists
• ASME Y14.35M, Revisions to Engineering Drawings
• ASME Y14.100M, Engineering Drawing Practices

MIL-STD-280, Definition of Item, Levels, Item Exchangeability, Models, and Related Terms.  This standard defines the standard terminology used in naming equipment used by the military.

MIL-STD-961E, DoD Standard Practice, Defense and Program-Unique Specifications Format and Content

MIL-STD-962D, DoD Standard Practice, Defense Standards Format and Content

MIL-STD-974, Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service (CITIS)

MIL-DTL-31000, Detail Specification Technical Data Packages

MIL-PRF-28000, Digital Representation for Communication of Product Data

MIL-PRF-28002, Requirements for Raster Graphics Representation in Binary Format

MIL-PRF-28003, Digital Representation for Communication of Illustration Data

DoD 4120.24-M, Defense Standardization Program, Policies and Procedures

Federal Standardization Manual 2000

SD-2, Buying Commercial & Non-developmental Items.  This document offers guidance on commercial and NDI acquisitions.  It provides clarity on the consideration of Commercial and NDI as separate sets of items.

SD-15, Performance Specification Guide.  This document provides guidance on how to write performance specifications.

SD-16, Communicating Requirements.  (http://www.dsp.dla.mil/)

Defense Systems Management College Supplemental Text, Systems Engineering Fundamentals, (December 2000/January 2001).  This text covers the entire Systems Engineering process for acquisition programs.

Defense Acquisition Deskbook (http://deskbook.dau.mil/jsp/default.jsp)

MARCORSYSCOM Acquisition Procedures Handbook (Can be found in the Defense Acquisition Deskbook)

Industry Documents

ANSI^[4]/EIA-649, National Consensus Standard for Configuration Management.  This standard replaced MIL-STD-973, which prescribed definitive CM tasks for contractors.  EIA-649 is compatible with:

• ANSI/EIA JSTD-016, Software Development Process
• IEEE^[5]/EIA-12207, Information Technology – Software Life Cycle Process
• ISO^[6] 10007, Quality Management – Guidelines for Configuration Management
• ISO-10303-203, Application Protocol: Configuration Controlled Design
• EIA-632, National Consensus Standard for Systems Engineering

ISO 10007, Quality Management – Guidelines for Configuration Management.  This International Standard gives guidance on the use of Configuration Management in industry and its interface with other management systems.

IEEE Std 1220-1998, IEEE Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process.  It provides an integrated technical approach to engineering a system and the application of a systems engineering process throughout the product life-cycle.

Quality Control Standards.  ISO 9000 Series Standards and their American Society of Quality Control (ASOC) equivalents are used to audit and evaluate a contractor's quality program.  Within these standards there are broadly stated requirements that are met if the contractor has an adequate configuration management program implemented using the principles in EIA-649.  Of particular importance are the following clauses within each of the ISO and ASQC documents:

• Design Control
• Document and Data Control
• Product Identification and Traceability
• Control of Nonconforming Product

Software Related Standards.  The following are useful for configuration management practices unique to software, the requirements of which are compatible with the principles and practices in EIA-649.

• ANSI/IEEE Standard 610.12-1990, Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology
• IEEE Standard 828-1990, Software Configuration Management Plans
• ANSI/IEEE Standard 830-1994, Guide To Software Requirements Specifications
• ANSI/IEEE Standard 1042-1987, Guide to Software Configuration management
• ISO-9000-3, Quality Program Standard for Software Development
• IEEE/EIA 12207.0, Software Life Cycle Processes (Industry Implementation of  ISO/IEC 12207, Information Technology – Software Life Cycle Process)
• IEEE/EIA 12207.1, Software Life Cycle Processes – Life Cycle Data (Industry Implementation of ISO/IEC 12207, Information Technology – Software Life Cycle Process)
• IEEE/EIA 12207.2, Software Life Cycle Processes – Implementation Considerations ( Industry Implementation of ISO/IEC 12207, Information Technology – Software Life Cycle Process)
• ISO-12220-2, Integral Life Cycle Processes – Part 2: Software Configuration Management
• ANSI/EIA JSTD-016, Software Development Process
• SEI^[7]-93-TR-024 delineates a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) provides a "best practices" view of software development.

Information Sites

http://deskbook.dau.mil/jsp/default.jsp  [Acquisition Deskbook]
www.acq-ref.navy.mil/tools/turbo/index.cfm [Turbo Streamliner]
http://assist2.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/ [ASSIST]
http://www.acq.osd.mil/ara [Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics]
http://www.acq.osd.mil/ar/ar.htm [Acquisition Initiatives]
www.abm.rda.hq.navy.mil/ [USN, Acquisition and Business Management]
http://www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil/sites/specs&standards/ [MCSC Standardization Web page]
http://www.acq-ref.navy.mil/tools/specright/ [Specification writing tool]

Documents No Longer Available (Cancelled or Superseded):

MIL-STD-973, Configuration Management.  This standard has been cancelled; but it may still be cited on some older contracts.  MIL-STD-973 contained definitive instructions for contractors. MIL-STD-973 was cancelled when EIA-649 and MIL-STD-2549 became available.  Previously, MIL-STD-973 had cancelled the following:

• MIL-STD-480, Configuration Control – Engineering Changes, Deviations and Waivers.
• MIL-STD-481, Configuration Control – Short Form
• MIL-STD-482, Configuration Status Accounting Data Elements and Related Features
• MIL-STD-483, Configuration Management Practices
• MIL-STD-1456, Configuration Management Plan
• MIL-STD-1521, Technical Reviews and Audits for Systems, Equipments, and Computer Software (Appendices G, H, and I, only)

MIL-STD-2549, Configuration Management Data Interface.  This MIL-STD has been cancelled without replacement.  A commercial standard, EIA-836, Industry Consensus Standards for Data Interoperability and Configuration, may eventually replace MIL-STD-2549 if it meets the DoD requirements.

^[1] Go to Defense Standardization Program Office, ASSIST Database for the most up-to-date and ONLY official version of MIL-HDBK-61A. (http://assist2.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/)

^[2] Electronic Industries Association
^[3] American Society of Mechanical Engineers
^[4] American National Standard Institute
^[5] The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
^[6] International Standards Organization
^[7] Software Engineering Institute

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