Defense Standardization Program
(DSP) Workshop
“Configuration Management Standards”
Mr. Daniel K. Christensen
Naval Air Systems Command
Configuration/Data Manager
11 July 2018
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Overview
• Non- Government Standards Background
• Configuration Management Standards Working Group
(CMSWG) Background
• EIA-649-1, Configuration Management Requirements for
Defense Contracts
• Configuration Management Documentation and Alignment
• SAE EIA-649-1 Adoption and Publication
• Complementary Coordinated Family of CM Principles and
Processes
• Questions
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Non- Government Standards Background
• The Department of Defense (DoD) publishes
military standards (MIL-STD) to ensure defense
contractors and suppliers employ consistent,
efficient, and effective processes and conform to
government policy.
• Section 12(d) of the National Technology
Transfer and Advancement Act of 1996, Public
Law (PL) 104-113, states Federal Agencies shall
use technical standards developed or adopted
by voluntary consensus standards bodies, unless
impractical or inconsistent with law. Federal
Agencies shall participate in development of
voluntary consensus standards, unless
incompatible with Agency mission, priorities, or
resources.
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Non- Government Standards Background
• During acquisition reform in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and in response to PL
104-113, the DoD cancelled many of the military standards and adopted
commercial standards in their place as a cost-saving measure. For example, one of
the first industry standards that the DoD adopted was the configuration
management standard ANSI/EIA-649, “National Consensus Standard for
Configuration Management,” then cancelled MIL-STD-973, Configuration
Management (CM) in 2000.
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Configuration Management Standards Working
Group (CMSWG) Background
• In 2010, the Air Force briefed the DoD Defense Standardization Council (DSC)
regarding the need to reinstate several military standards, including the
cancelled MIL-STD-973 for CM.
• The DSC directed the Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO) to work
with the Services to form a CM gap analysis working group to confirm the
need for an enterprise-wide approach to certain process standards, including
CM.
• In March 2012, the Defense Standardization Executive directed that the
standards working groups’ first course of action should be to engage non-
government standard organizations to determine whether existing standards
could be modified or whether there is interest in developing new standards in
these areas.
• In July 2012, the Navy led the chartered Configuration Management
Standards Working Group (CMSWG) to develop the CM NGS. The CMSWG
included participants from the uniformed Services, including the U.S. Coast
Guard, and other DoD agencies (i.e., Defense Contract Management Agency,
National Security Agency, and Defense Logistics Agency).
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Configuration Management Standards Working
Group (CMSWG) Background
• The CMSWG generated an initial draft standard, which was presented
to the SAE G-33 Committee on Configuration Management in October
2013. The SAE G-33 Committee initiated a formal project in November
2013 to develop an addendum SAE EIA-649-B, referred to as SAE EIA-
649-1, Configuration Management Requirements for Defense
Contracts.
• The CMSWG distributed multiple drafts of the SAE EIA-649-1 for
review across DoD and industry. The group adjudicated more than
3,750 comments to provide a standard compliant with DoD policy and
supported by both DoD and industry.
• In addition to writing the SAE EIA-649-1, the CMSWG modified 18 CM-
related data item descriptions (DID) to prescribe deliverables
compliant with SAE EIA-649-1.
• Additionally, the CMSWG reviewed and updated five CM-related DoD
forms (DD Forms) and added detailed instructions to support
consistent implementation and use in support of SAE EIA-649-1.
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SAE EIA-649-1, Configuration Management
Requirements for Defense Contracts
• SAE EIA-649 and other standards,
including MIL-STD-3046 and DoD
addenda to ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 Systems
and Software Engineering – System Life
Cycle Processes, influenced the
development of the EIA-649-1.
• Other key sources of information that
guided the SAE EIA-649-1 development
include current DoD policy (in particular,
DoD Instruction 5000.02, Operation of
the Defense Acquisition System) and
related DoD guidance such as the
Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG)
Chapter 4 on Systems Engineering (in
particular, section 4.3.7 on
Configuration Management) and the
military handbook MIL-HDBK-61A,
Configuration Management Guidance.
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EIA-649-1, Configuration Management
Requirements for Defense Contracts
• Consistent with SAE EIA-649B, the SAE EIA-
649-1 makes use of the acquirer and supplier
roles to define requirements.
• By defining how CM requirements are to be
applied in contracts with suppliers, SAE EIA-
649-1 drives the program to understand and
quantify the requirements as accurately and
as early as possible to support effective CM
and control of the system baseline.
• Cross-walked EIA-649-1 content with IEEE SE
and TR&A standards for use on DoD
contracts to verify consistency.
• Even though the SAE EIA-649-1 is intended
to satisfy DoD contracting requirements, this
CM standard applies to any commercial,
government, or international enterprise
engaged in acquirer/supplier CM activities.
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Configuration Management
Documentation and Alignment
•DoDD 5000.01 Enclosure 1
•DoDI 5000.02 Enclosure 3
Policy
•Chapter 4 (section 4.3.7)
DAG •Other Chapters: 2, 5, 7, 12, and 13
•MIL-HDBK-61 Configuration Management Guidance
•GEIA-HB-649A Implementation Guide for Configuration Management
Handbooks
6 DD Forms
•61 Request for Nomenclature (MIL-STD-196)
SAE •1692 Engineering Change Proposal (ECP)
EIA-649B •1694 Request for Variance (RFV)
•1695 Notice of Revision (NOR)
DD Forms •1696 Specification Change Notice (SCN)
•2617 Engineering Release Record (ERR)
18 repetitive DIDs
SAE EIA-649-1 •DI-SESS-80463 Engineering Release Record (ERR)
•DI-SESS-80639 Engineering Change Proposal (ECP)
•DI-SESS-80640 Request for Variance (RFV)
•DI-SESS-80642 Notice of Revision (NOR)
CM DIDs •DI-SESS-80643 Specification Change Notice (SCN)
•DI-SESS-81254 Request for Nomenclature
•DI-SESS-80858 Supplier’s Configuration Management Plan
CM Standards •DI-SESS-81022 Configuration Audit Summary
•DI-SESS-81218 Product Baseline Index (PBLI)
•DI-SESS-81121 Baseline Description Document
IEEE 15288.1 •DI-SESS-81245 Installation Complete Notification (ICN)
and 15288.2
•DI-SESS-81248 Interface Control Document (ICD)
•DI-SESS-81253 Configuration Status Accounting Information
• SE Standard •DI-SESS-81646 Configuration Audit Plan
• Technical Reviews •DI-SESS-81830 As Built Configuration List-Common (ABCL-C)
and Audits •DI-SESS-81879 Configuration Item (CI) Documentation Recommendation
DAU
Standard
•SYS 101 CM Lesson
Training •DI-SESS-81856 Contractual Baseline Report
•DI-SESS-81011 Drawing/Model Number Assignment Report
•LOG 204 CM
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EIA-649-1 Adoption and Publication
• SAE EIA-649-1 was published on November 20,
2014 and DOD adopted both the SAE EIA-649-B
and the SAE EIA-649-1 on March 4, 2015. Posted
in ASSIST db on the March 18, 2015.
• 10 Data Item Descriptions approved on April 7,
2015 and uploaded into the ASSIST db on 13 April
2015. Additional DID’s were updated prior.
• DD Forms approved on the April 7, 2015 and
posted on the DTIC “DoD Forms Management
Program” website on May 15, 2015.
• All DD Forms have been again updated and
posted onto the
http://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/forms/
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Complementary Coordinated Family
of CM Principles and Processes
• SAE EIA-649B “Configuration Management Standards”
This is an industry standard and is intended to be used when establishing, performing, or
evaluating CM processes.
• SAE EIA-649-1 “Configuration Management Requirements for Defense Contracts”
This is a defense unique standard to the non-government standard, that generates, manages and
is controlled by the non-government standard body with Defense membership to provide
requirements specific for Defense contracts. This standard is for placing tailored Configuration
Management requirements on Defense contracts.
• GEIA-HB-649A “Configuration Management Implementation Guide Handbook”
Initiated to synchronize content and harmonize terminology contained in both the GEIA-HB-649
and the MIL-HDBK-61A with its companion standard ANSI/EIA-649 by consolidating the two
handbooks.
This handbook provides a one-stop shop for all CM professionals and practitioners to obtain
recommended practice implementation guidance information that has actual use cases provided
by Industry/Commercial and the Government/Department of Defense representing a cohesive
and aligned community.
EIA-649B “Configuration Management Standards” is in the process of being updated to EIA-649C
and revised IAW with the SAE five year review cycle. Thus any changes to the principles and after
the SAE balloting and approval process is completed the updated EIA-649-1A “Configuration
Management Requirements for Defense Contracts”, updated GEIA-HB-649B “Configuration
Management Implementation Guide Handbook” will be required for balloting and approval also.
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Complementary Coordinated Family
of CM Principles and Processes (cont.)
• The acquirer should use SAE EIA-649-1 in concert with the SAE EIA-649B
and leverage the guidance provided in associated handbooks, such as
GEIA-HB-649A and MIL-HDBK-61A.
• With this arsenal of collaborative and standardized CM requirements and
guiding information, the CM professional should have a strategic
advantage in implementing and executing acquirer/supplier (i.e.,
government/contractor) CM more efficiently and effectively.
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Backup
PUBLIC LAW 114–328—DEC. 23, 2016
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017
• PUBLIC LAW 114–328—DEC. 23, 2016
• NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
• FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017
• 10 USC 2305
• SEC. 875. USE OF COMMERCIAL OR NON-GOVERNMENT STANDARDS
• IN LIEU OF MILITARY SPECIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS.
• (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Department of Defense uses commercial or non-Government specifications and standards in
lieu of military specifications and standards, including for procuring new systems, major modifications, upgrades to current systems, non-developmental and
commercial items, and programs in all acquisition categories, unless no practical alternative exists to meet user needs. If it is not practicable to use a
commercial or non-Government standard, a Government unique specification may be used.
• (b) LIMITED USE OF MILITARY SPECIFICATIONS.—
• (1) IN GENERAL.—Military specifications shall be used in procurements only to define an exact design solution when there is no acceptable commercial or non-
Government standard or when the use of a commercial or non-Government standard is not cost effective.
• (2) WAIVER.—A waiver for the use of military specifications in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be approved by either the appropriate milestone decision
authority, the appropriate service acquisition executive, or the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
• (c) REVISION TO DFARS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and
Logistics shall revise the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to encourage contractors to propose commercial or non-Government standards
and industry-wide practices that meet the intent of the military specifications and standards.
• (d) DEVELOPMENT OF NON-GOVERNMENT STANDARDS.—The Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall form partnerships with
appropriate industry associations to develop commercial or non-Government standards for replacement of military specifications and standards where
practicable.
• (e) EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND GUIDANCE.—The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall ensure that training, education,
and guidance programs throughout the Department are revised to incorporate specifications and standards reform.
• (f) LICENSES.—The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall negotiate licenses for standards to be used across the
Department of Defense and shall maintain an inventory of such licenses that is accessible to other Department of Defense organizations.
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EIA-649-1 Content
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EIA-649-1 Content (cont.)
3.2 Configuration Identification
3.2.1 Configuration Item Selection
3.2.2 Configuration Baselines
3.2.3 Engineering Release System
3.2.4 Configuration Identifiers
3.2.5 Interface Management
3.3 Configuration Change Management
3.3.1 Engineering Change Proposal (ECP)
3.3.2 Requests for Variance (RFV)
3.3.3 Specification Change Notice (SCN)
3.3.4 Notices of Revision (NORs)
3.4 Configuration Status Accounting (CSA)
3.4.1 Supplier CSA System
3.4.2 CSA Analysis Requirements
3.5 Configuration Verification and Audits
3.5.1 Common Supplier Audit Responsibilities
3.5.2 Functional Configuration Audit (FCA)
3.5.3 Physical Configuration Audit (PCA)
3.5.4 Post-Audit Action
3.5.5 Configuration Audit Summary
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EIA-649-1 Content (cont.)
Table 1 Cross Reference for Principles from ANSI/EIA-649
Table 2 Data Item Descriptions (DIDs) and DD Forms
Table 3 Additional Associated DIDs
ANNEX A Tailoring Checklist
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