Industry IT Standards in DoD - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Greg Saunders

Director, Defense Standardization

Program Office

gregory_saunders@hq.dla.mil

• DoD Policy - Use Non-Government Standards In Lieu of Military Standards Whenever Feasible.
• “Non-Government” rather than “Voluntary Consensus”
• Use Standards that Reflect Commercial Marketplace

Public Law 104-113

“National Technology

Transfer Act”

OMB Circular A-119

“Federal Participation

in the Development &

Use of Voluntary

Standards”

DoD 4120.24-M

“Defense Stdz Program

Policies & Procedures”

• Use NGS Instead of Govt
• Stds Unless Impractical
• Participate in Development
• of NGS if in Interest of
• Public and Agency

• Implements Public
• Law Approved

• Contains DoD Adoption
• Procedures

Specs and Standards Infrastructure

DoD Adopted NGS

• 8981 NGS adopted by DoD.
• NGS bodies with largest number of adopted documents:

ASTM 2784

SAE 2052

AIA 1147

ANSI 425

UL 223

EIA 160

Joint & Coalition Warfare

• DoD 5000.2-R, “Mandatory Procedures for Major Defense & Major Automated Information System Acquisition Programs”
• All acquired systems shall be interoperable with other U.S. and allied defense systems, as defined in the requirements and interoperability documents.
• The Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) is required for all new, or changes to existing, information technology. Implementation of the JTA is the use of applicable standards cited as mandated in the JTA.
• The Program Manager shall identify any International Standardization Agreement or U.S. implementing documents that apply to the program early in the design process, and thereby ensure interoperability with allied systems and equipment.

Types of Standards Mandated in DoD Joint Technical Architecture, Version 3.1

• 870 DoD personnel participate in NGS body activities.
• NGS bodies with the largest DoD participation:

SAE 364

ASTM 238

EIA 46

IEEE 25

ASME 23

• DoD pioneered use of NGS and advocates reliance on these documents.
• DoD will continue to aggressively pursue all types of NGS development and use.

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