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Use/relationship: A Critical Plan of Action (CPOA) describes the Contractor's methodology for addressing known Failure Modes within approved critical non-conformance creation rates (also referred to as CPOA thresholds), appropriate corrective actions, and continuous improvement to reduce non-conformances (defects) against a discrete critical characteristic. For a stable and in-control production process with well understood non-conformance creation rates and Failure Modes, a CPOA is a collection of alternative plans and provisions that potentially provides a means to maintain operational continuity while avoiding delays due to mandated shutdown.

This Data Item Description (DID) contains format and content preparation instructions for the data product generated by the specific and discrete task requirement as delineated in the contract.