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Use, Relationships : A Request for Deviation describes a proposed departure from (a nonconformance with) the contractually-specified configuration documentation for a specific number of units or for a specified period of time.

A Request for Deviation enables the Government to determine the impact on performance, operational readiness, logistics support or other affected areas.

This Data Item Description (DID) contains the format, content and preparation instructions for the data product resulting from the work task specified in the contract.

Data Item Description submittal in Extensible Markup Language (XML) is acceptable. An XML Document Type Definition (DTD), associated XML document template, and other information is available from http://www.geia.org/836/

This DID supersedes DI-CMAN-80640B and DI-CMAN-80641B.