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Purpose

The purpose of this standard is to provide manufacturing, quality, and training requirements for the manufacture of NASA mission hardware and electrostatic discharge (ESD) control which augment requirements found in one or more of the documents listed in Table 1, Workmanship Requirements Documents.

Applicability

This standard applies to NASA Installations, including NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, Component Facilities and Technical and Service Support Centers. This language applies to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center), other contractors, recipients of grants, cooperative agreements, or other agreements only to the extent specified or referenced in the applicable contracts, grants, or agreements.

The requirements of this standard may not apply when requirements flow down is not practical. Examples include internal research and development activities, procurement of off-the-shelf (OTS) items, or when using suppliers who work to alternate standards. Projects procuring OTS products or products made to alternate standards shall be responsible for identifying and managing risk associated with hardware that may have been built or will be built without material controls, production methods, or quality inspections defined by the workmanship standards in Table 1.

Questions concerning the application of this publication to specific procurements should be referred to the applicable NASA program, project, or Center.

In this standard, all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms "may" denotes a discretionary privilege or permission, "can" denotes statements of possibility or capability, "should" denotes a good practice and is recommended, but not required, "will" denotes expected outcome, and "are/is" denotes descriptive material.

Levying Special Requirements

Project-specific and NASA Center-specific workmanship requirements not contained in this publication or in the standards referenced in Table 1 shall be formally documented and approved by the project's quality assurance leadership prior to implementation. See 4.1 for implementation requirements.

Note: Review and approval is necessary to ensure these requirements are adequate, as compared to requirements herein, and to ensure traceability of engineering and work documentation to all imposed requirements.

Project-specific and NASA Center-specific requirements that conflict with requirements stated herein or in the standards in Table 1 shall be formally documented, approved, and traceable to requests for relief prior to implementation. NPR 8715.3 defines the process for requesting and granting relief from requirements within this standard.