New DoD Quality Assurance Practices

Abstract

This paper reports the results of a three-year study by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) called Government-Industry Standardization of Product Acceptance Based on Process Data. The purpose of the study was to help devise a new Department of Defense (DoD) approach to quality assurance practices. The paper includes a new standard developed under the task, acceptable to both DoD and industry, that allows DoD to move away from accepting product by end-item inspection to accepting product based on the contractor's quality system and use of process controls. The paper recommends the elimination of three military standards and a specification, and discusses IDA's role in DoD's decision to authorize the use of the ISO 9000 series of quality system standards.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA285510

Entities

People

  • Karen J. Richter
  • Seymour J. Lorber

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Commerce
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineers
  • Experimental Design
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Standards
  • Organizational Structure
  • Quality Control
  • Standards
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Surveys

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