MIL-HDBK-61B (PROPOSED DRAFT), MILITARY HANDBOOK: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE (10 SEP 2002)

MIL-HDBK-61B (PROPOSED DRAFT), MILITARY HANDBOOK: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE (10 SEP 2002)., This military handbook provides guidance and information to DoD acquisition managers, logistics managers, and other individual's assigned responsibility for Configuration Management. Its purpose is to assist them in planning for and implementing effective DoD configuration management activities and practices during all life cycle phases of defense systems and configuration items. It supports acquisition based on performance specifications, and the use of industry standards and methods to the greatest practicable extent. This handbook is closely related to the following Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) Standards: ANSI/EIA-649-1998, "National Consensus Standard for Configuration Management," EIA-836, "Consensus Standard for Configuration Management Data Exchange and Interoperability," and ANSI/EIA-632-1998, "Processes for Engineering a System."